Smartphones were now something everyone needed. You could say everyone used them, and no one found them unusual anymore. People had even seen all sorts of smartphones, from folding ones to enlarged ones and so on. But the problem was, if you thought about it carefully, less than a dozen or so years had passed since smartphones first appeared. The Pokémon world was the same: smartphones had only been around for a dozen or so years. So if this thing dated back several decades, it definitely could not be a smartphone. If it was not a smartphone, then what exactly was it?
"...Actually, during archaeological digs in Sinnoh, some strange things were discovered. On stone tablets dating back over a thousand years, there was also something resembling a smartphone, held in someone's hand. It looked exactly like a phone. According to the translations, people called it the Light of Creation, but we still don't know what that thing actually was. It does look a little like this, though." Cynthia looked somewhat hesitant. She loved archaeology and had seen plenty of ruins and other things back in Sinnoh.
But the appearance of this thing still puzzled her, as it did many archaeologists. Why would something resembling a smartphone appear in that era? After all, some Pokémon Professors had never even seen a mobile phone when they were young. People used telephones back then, and a village might only have had two. Only wealthy households could afford to have a telephone installed. Mobile phones had come later, and even those had been button phones.
Smartphones had appeared even further back in antiquity, so the archaeologists could only look elsewhere for explanations, speculate, and force interpretations. They had even suspected someone of fabricating the evidence, but in the end, it had proven genuine,