Gramps version 5.1.5 and MacOS High Sierra.
I am new in using gramps.
My question is, how do I add a mobile number to the personal data, without having to enter the address?
Because the data currently available is only a family tree, date of birth, and cellphone number, there is no address or city data.
Are there special gramplets to enter that data?
If you don’t want to use an Address record to store a phone number (which would allow you to display a kind of directory), you can enter the number as an Attribute. Just add the custom type “Mobile Number”.
Since there is no “Mobile Number” in Attribute, how to add custom type?
I don’t see a good reason for a custom attribute.
Simply add another address with only a phone number.
While 5.1 doesn’t show phone numbers (or postal code) in the Address tab, the new 5.2 was enhanced to do so.
One of the reasons to use an address record for this is that it supports a date range. So you can maintain a history of them. (So you might be able to determine who was being called for that number listed in the Family Newsletter contacts in 1980.)
See 0011600: Addresses tab can have invisible rows of Phone only records
Using an Attribute as @pgerlier suggests may be added to reports etc when you may not want this to happen. Making it Private would add some control. A person’s Attribute tends to get added to reports when an Address record is not.
Just because the Address can handle other information, you can limit your entries to just the phone number. Having it entered here you can aggregate all the Address entries in a report like the Narrative Web.
Thanks pgerlier, DaveSch & emyoulation 
Based on @emyoulation suggestion, now I limit my entries to just the phone number.
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