This is currently doing the rounds on the Internet. Irish filmmaker George Clarke 'discovered' this footage in the extras of a Chaplin DVD boxset. The footage from the premiere of Charlie Chaplin's The Circus shows a woman walking in the background who appears to be talking on a cell phone. In 1928! More info here.
Of course it's not a time traveller. I'm not even sure if that's a woman. It could be a man in drag. If you take a look at the Siemens hearing instruments history site it could be a compact, pocket sized carbon microphone/amplifier device, which they patented in 1924.
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