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* In ''"Dial H For Hero"'' there was a mysterious TransformationTrinket that appeared to be a rotary dial with alien script instead of numbers attached to a strap. Later adaptations attached the rotary to actual phones, with origins in a civilization terminally dependant on similar devices. The 2018 title runs full tilt into this and introduces four, color-coded dials, all mounted on and operated like various rotary dial phones, with unique transformations, whose effects can be transmitted through phone connections for mass empowering.

%%* The Genie in ''Film/PrettyCoolToo'' is this.

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* ''Max and Sally and the Phenomenal Phone'' by Milos Macourek and illustrated/animated by Adolf Born: Two three-graders and friends, Max and Sally, help a stranger to find his lost glasses, and as a reward, he gifts them a seemingly ordinary torn-off telephone receiver. The receiver turns out to be magic. When they speak to it, some man's voice answers and grants their wishes. [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Max and Sally must be careful what they wish for]], but usually, they have great fun and enjoy great adventures.

* Early on in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', you get a cellphone which is by all means pretty normal, capable of making phone calls, although [[SuperCellReception how a cellphone can get reception deep underground is never explained]]. Later, you get an upgrade that allows you to access your item storage chest at any time and adds a second chest, unless you follow a specific story route that causes the NPC who provides it to not appear.

* Early on in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', you get a cellphone which is by all means pretty normal, capable of making phone calls, although how a cellphone can get reception deep underground is never explained. Later, you get an upgrade that allows you to access your item storage chest at any time and adds a second chest, unless you follow a specific story route that causes the NPC who provides it to not appear.

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* ''Webcomic/CucumberQuest'': Nautilus [[SummonMagic summons her familiar]] Liquus with a cellphone. Although She's [[InsistentTerminology insistent]] on calling it a Royal Instrument of Summoning.

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* ''Webcomic/CucumberQuest'': Nautilus [[SummonMagic summons her familiar]] Liquus with a cellphone. Although She's [[InsistentTerminology insistent]] on calling it a Royal Instrument of Summoning.
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* The Genie in ''Film/PrettyCoolToo'' is this.

** The title character of[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild "The Empty Child"]] manages to activate the dummy prop phone on the outside of the TARDIS, much to the Doctor's amazement.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' had Billy making prank calls with [[Franchise/CthulhuMythos Cthulhu's]] phone because it doesn't show up on Caller ID. It has the side effect of turning anyone who answers it into an EldritchAbomination.

* Igor in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 1}}'' and ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}'' had a phone that allowed him to fuse Personas through cards. ''VideoGame/{{Persona 3}}''[=-onwards=] dropped the phone and instead had him use his magic to fuse them.

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* The landlines and cell phones owned by the faerie in the ''Literature/OctoberDaye'' series are all magicked for privacy and to work under odd magical conditions where technology ordinarily would not function.

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** Also, The Gasmask Child in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E9TheEmptyChild "The Empty Child"]] manages to activate the dummy prop phone on the outside of the Police Box, much to the Doctor's amazement.
** Every companion since Rose has had their phone upgraded. They're referred to as Superphones. The Doctor himself has one that originally belonged to Martha Jones.

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* Occurs in ''VideoGame/MetroLastLight'' where Artyom comes across a phone ringing on his way to the "River of Fate", in an abandoned and half-flooded section of the UsefulNotes/MoscowMetro. Picking it up will have [[spoiler: Artyom's mother]] calling at Artyom.

* ''VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame'': The Red Phone of Asmodeus is one of the Cursed Artifacts. You come across it in the main lobby of the office building in Times Square.

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* An [[StylisticSuck intentionally terrible]] creepypasta originally posted on FourChan tells of the narrator making out with their girlfriend, only to be interrupted by the girl's father calling them and asking them what they are doing with their daughter. [[PlotTwist The girl then informs the narrator that their father is dead,]] and the story ends with the [[MemeticMutation now-memetic question of "THEN WHO WAS PHONE?"]]

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* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Has a teleporter that works exactly like a phone.

---> "You've reached the Ghostbusters. They can't come to the phone right now--they're out to lunch! Permanently! Heh-heh-heh!"

* ''TabletopGame/D20Modern'' has the [[http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/MSRD:FX_Items#Eldritch_Cell_Phone Eldritch Cell Phone]], which can contact any person's phone without needing the number, or even call the phone nearest to the person if they don't have one of their own. It also has magical encryption and protection against tracing.

* In ''[[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Lady Wifi]]'', the VillainOfTheWeek gets her powers from her smartphone, which is being used as the vessel for an akuma. She can teleport between phones, and launch runes that freeze people in place or hijack television screens to broadcast the images of her choice. [[LogicalWeakness This also means that none of her powers work if she doesn't have a wifi signal]].

* In ''Literature/TheLaundrySeries'' by Creator/CharlesStross, magic is advanced maths and is, therefore, easier for computers to do than people. When Bob gets an [=iPhone=], Brain gimmicks it to have the usual array of Laundry Agent spells as apps.

** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'' and especially ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'' keep this concept rolling, mostly in an example of TechnologyMarchesOn. It turns out you don't need [[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIa wrist-mounted computer gauntlet]] or [[VideoGame/DevilSummoner a specialized PDA disguised as a handgun]] in the age of smartphones. They even cover [[FusionDance Demon Fusion]] better than the [[VideoGame/SoulHackers older devices did]].

A supernatural and otherworldly phone, but more commonly a cellphone. It may have the ability to tell the future, it could act as a personal teleportation device or even as a weapon. It may also allow conversations with the dead or supernatural, and probably needs SuperCellReception.

This type of phone tends to crop up in UrbanFantasy works. Also, in sci-fi, instead of having paranormal origins the phone might be [[AppliedPhlebotinum highly technologically advanced]] as an excuse to do all sorts of impossible things. In horror, the phone is usually an EvilPhone and might even be a ArtifactOfDoom.

* In ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'', some shinigami, Rukia at least, are shown to use special cell phones to detect spiritual pressure in a close location in the World of the Living and to communicate with Soul Society. Lampshaded by Ichigo when he learns Urahara gave one to Uryuu during the time-skip: when Uryuu tells Ichigo to text him, Ichigo points out that a Soul Society phone isn't going to be compatible with "normal" phones.

* ''Manga/FutureDiary'' has almost every major character having and using a supernatural cellphone or similar device that can tell the future in various ways.

* In ''Dead Lines'', a telecommunications company markets the "Trans", a cellphone which they claim has near unlimited bandwidth, but it turns out that the bandwidth that it uses is also used by souls travelling to the afterlife.

* In ''Literature/TheLaundrySeries'' by Creator/CharlesStross, magic is advanced maths, and is therefore easier for computers to do than people. When Bob gets an [=iPhone=], Brain gimmicks it to have the usual array of Laundry Agent spells as apps.

* The landlines and cellphones owned by the faerie in the ''Literature/OctoberDaye'' series are all magicked for privacy and to work under odd magical conditions where technology ordinarily would not function.

** The Doctor upgrades Rose's phone in [[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld "The End of the World"]] to be able to call home across the entirely of space and time.

* There have been several iterations of ''Franchise/PowerRangers''[=/=]''Franchise/SuperSentai'' wherein their cellphones have been incorporated with their morphers. How many of them see regular use as phones depends on the series. Owing to the age of the franchise, they started out as flip-phones, then got progressively sleeker, and [[Series/ResshaSentaiTokkyuger the most recent case]] resembled a smartphone.

* In the ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode "Christmas Carol", Scully receives a phone call from a mysterious woman who sounds just like her dead sister Melissa. She urges her to help a little girl who turns out to be Scully's biological daughter. The FBI were able to trace the address and it's confirmed that a call came in from that place, but there was no outgoing call from that residence and their phone had been off the hook.

* In ''TabletopGame/InNomine'', Cherubim of Jean have the ability to call the nearest phone to any person or object they are attuned to. If there is no nearby phone, they can spend 1 "Essence" to cause a cell phone to materialize for 10 minutes within seven feet of their attuned.

* In ''TabletopGame/WitchGirlsAdventures'', the Celestial Cell can be used anywhere on Earth (getting unlimited minutes; [[TechnologyMarchesOn this was written before that was normal]]), and generally eliminating all the crap that comes with owning a cellphone or computer is first-level Cybermancy.

** ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIV'' and especially ''VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiIVApocalypse'' keep this concept rolling, mostly in an example of TechnologyMarchesOn. It turns out you don't need [[VideoGame/ShinMegamiTenseiI a wrist-mounted computer gauntlet]] or a [[VideoGame/DevilSummoner specialized PDA disguised as a handgun]] in the age of Smart-devices. They even cover Demon Fusion better than the [[VideoGame/SoulHackers older devices did]].

* Played with in ''Shin Megami Tensei: VideoGame/DevilSurvivor.'' In the first game, the protagonists receive [=COMPs=] - "Communications Players" that look like DS systems - which have been hacked to use the Demon Summoning Program; not quite cellphones, but in much the same spirit. [[VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2 The second game]] ''does'' use cellphones, but there's nothing inherently unusual about them: they only ''become'' unusual once the Demon Summoning App is force-installed on them.

* In ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'', the main characters receive the rules for the days games from the Reapers with their cellphones through text messages. Joshua however kicks it up a notch using his to use initiate his attacks which include dropping objects and [[HolyHandGrenade Jesus]] [[PillarOfLight beams]] on his enemies.