History Main / SupernaturalPhone

** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld The End of the World]]", the Doctor upgrades Rose's phon to be able to call home across the entirety of space and time.

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-> ''"It is a phone. It's an Object of Power. It doesn't connect to any typical network. A direct line to the Astral Plane and the Board - and my hypothesis is, under the right conditions, to other planes of existence as well. Our very own Ouiji board. Only the Director can answer it safely, and what he hears is kept classified."''

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* ''Anime/EdenOfTheEast'':
** The Numbers all have phones that can call Juiz, who will grant any request within the realm of their 10 billion yen budget.
** Though Taishi in ''The King Of Eden'' shows that Juiz can't do absolutely ''everything'', as his crazy demands to get Akira and Saki to take a shower together for his movie just gets Juiz angry and frustrated at him.

* ''Literature/InAnotherWorldWithMySmartphone'''s main gimmick is that after God mistaking kills OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, Touya Mochizuki, too soon, he decides to give the boy a second chance at life in a magical fantasy world while giving Touya one wish to make up for killing him. Touya asked him if he could keep his smartphone. Now it has service in and GPS maps of said fantasy world, can access the internet of Touya's home universe, and can make direct calls to God. Touya mostly uses it for maps, selfies, and looking up how to make ice cream online.

* ''Anime/OccultAcademy'': The cell phone Maya swipes, from Fumiaki, has the ability to identify the [[ArtifactOfDoom "Nostradamus Key"]] with its camera function. Said artifact [[spoiler: will trigger an alien invasion that results in TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt.]]
* ''Anime/UltimateMuscle'' villain Tel-Tel Boy (aka Dial Bolic) is a man-sized, fully-functional telephone with arms and legs. His core ability is the "Trauma Call"--he dials up a person (or establishment) the opponent [[IKnowWhatYouFear fears]], then [[MasterOfIllusion morphs]] into a copy of them. Of course, if he calls the wrong number, nothing happens.
* ''Manga/UQHolder'': has literal magic smartphones: they're non-corporeal and fulfill all the functions of a modern phone and more. In fact, one can literally purchase magic spells (magic apps) and use them from the phone rather than learn the spell the old-fashioned way. That said, magic apps do tend to be weaker or less useful than spells cast by an actual mage, who probably also knows when and how to use the spell more effectively in the first place.

* In ''ComicBook/DialHForHero'' 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 mental radios from the Golden Age Franchise/WonderWoman comics (''ComicBook/WonderWoman1942'' & ''ComicBook/SensationComics'') manage to combine this with ReinventingTheTelephone, because even though the "radios" allow the user to use a form of telepathy to connect with the person being contacted the things are pretty much never used to do more than, essentially, [=FaceTime=].

* ''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.

* At one point in ''FanFic/AllGuardsmenParty,'' The Rupert uses an Imperial Psyker in leiu of a "vox" (Think a highly evolved radio) to contact the party and send instructions. Everyone dreams of a mustache yelling "Is this thing on?" and then giving orders.
* In ''FanFic/TheGreatAlicornHunt,'' Twilight magicks all of the Mane Six's vanity mirrors into {{Video Phone}}s, and some makeup compacts into cell phones.

* The Genie in ''Film/PrettyCoolToo'' is A high-tech cell phone gives a mischievous high school senior the power to influence the actions of others .

* Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/{{Cell}}'': The phones turned everyone into zombies.

* Creator/ChinaMieville's ''Literature/{{Kraken}}'' has 'knacked' mobile phones that can do things like communicate with Wati, a disembodied spirit, or communicate over an unlimited range.
* In ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'' 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 Doctor upgrades Rose's phone in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS27E2TheEndOfTheWorld The End of the World]]" to be able to call home across the entirety of space and time.

* In one episode of ''Series/{{Misfits}}'', the VillainOfTheWeek has the ability to call someone on their cellphone and use that to [[GrandTheftMe take over their body.]]
* 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 depend on the series. Owing to the age of the franchise, they started out as flip-phones, then got progressively sleeker, and [[Series/ResshaSentaiToQger the most recent case]] resembled a smartphone.

Will have a brand new service that [[PhoneCallFromTheDead lets you talk to the dead]].

* 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.

** 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 cell phones, but in much the same spirit. [[VideoGame/DevilSurvivor2 The second game]] ''does'' use cell phones, but there's nothing inherently unusual about them: they only ''become'' unusual once the Demon Summoning App is force-installed on them.
** ''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 bulky 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]].
* Igor in ''VideoGame/Persona1'' and ''VideoGame/Persona2'' had a phone that allowed him to fuse Personas through cards. ''VideoGame/Persona3''[=-onwards=], he drops the phone and instead had him use his magic to fuse them.

* Naomi, TheCoroner in ''VideoGame/TraumaTeam'', has a phone through which she hears the LastWords of the current victim.
* In ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou'', the main characters receive the rules for the day's 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.
** Later on, Neku's phone gets an upgrade that allows it to take pictures of the past, which is used less frequently than you'd think.
* The Hotline in ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'', a red rotary phone (with a missing dial) that serves as a direct line between the Director of the [[ArtifactCollectionAgency Federal Bureau of Control]] and its [[MysteriousBacker Board]], a sort of benign EldritchAbomination. Only the Director is allowed to use it; anyone else who tries suffers a gruesome but [[NoodleIncident unspecified]] fate. The worse a Director suffers is a little PsychicNosebleed. It also allows you to hear the final thoughts of the FBC's previous director, recently deceased, providing you with a lot of important context and knowledge about the Bureau.

* ''{{Franchise/Pokemon}}''
** ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' expands on the "Rotomdex" introduced in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' with Rotom Phones, cellular phones [[HauntedTechnology possessed and powered]] by the literal [[ElectromagneticGhosts electromagnetic ghost]] pokemon Rotom. This allows them to fly and operate on their own, at their owner's direction. They can be mounted on the player's bicycle to generate a charge that grants a temporary speed boost. Their levitation is also used to save their owners from would-be fatal falls, carrying them [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou at the very last second]] to negate fall damage.
** The PlayerCharacter in ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'' is gifted an Arc Phone, which is their modern-day smartphone empowered by the light of Arceus and distinguished by a unique Arceus-themed case. In addition to giving Arceus a direct line to the player (via text message), it also displays a map of the area and directions for missions given out by the Galaxy Expedition Team and surrounding townsfolk.

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* In ''WebVideo/BoardJames'''s review of the Dream Phone, the eponymous phone (a children's toy that's not supposed to be connected to any real phone network) starts giving James [[EvilPhone threatening phone calls]] from a SerialKiller anyway. [[spoiler:And then it turns out that the phone ''IS'' said SerialKiller, able to wield a knife even though it's a phone and doesn't have any limbs.]]
* An [[StylisticSuck intentionally terrible]] creepypasta originally posted on Website/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?"]]
* The Website/SCPFoundation has a couple of these: [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-086 SCP-086]], [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-145 SCP-145]], [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-270 SCP-270]], [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-400-arc the old SCP-400]], [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-467 SCP-467]] and [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-519 SCP-519]].

* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'': A cursed phone is featured in [[Recap/EdEddNEddyS4E16SorryWrongEd ''Sorry Wrong Ed'']], which curses Eddy when he takes it, causing it to inflict suffering on him whenever someone picks it up. Though Eddy eventually catches onto the curse, Double D refuses to believe that it is cursed, despite evidence to the contrary.
* ''WesternAnimation/FilmationsGhostbusters'': Ansabone, the wisecracking phone/answering machine.
-->"You've reached the Ghostbusters. They can't come to the phone right now — they're out to lunch! Permanently! Heh-heh-heh!"
* ''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.
* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'': Has a [[TelephoneTeleport teleporter]] that works exactly like a phone.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' episode "[[Recap/MiraculousLadybugS01E06LadyWifi 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.]]

** ''VideoGame/PokemonSwordAndShield'' expands on the "Rotomdex" introduced in ''VideoGame/PokemonSunAndMoon'' with Rotom Phones, cellular phones [[HauntedTechnology possessed and powered]] by the literal ElectromagneticGhost pokemon Rotom. This allows them to fly and operate on their own, at their owner's direction. They can be mounted on the player's bicycle to generate a charge that grants a temporary speed boost. Their levitation is also used to save their owners from would-be fatal falls, carrying them [[NotTheFallThatKillsYou at the very last second]] to negate fall damage.

* The PlayerCharacter in ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'' is gifted an Arc Phone, which is their modern-day smartphone empowered by the light of Arceus and distinguished by a unique Arceus-themed case. In addition to giving Arceus a direct line to the player (via text message), it also displays a map of the area and directions for missions given out by the Galaxy Expedition Team and surrounding townsfolk.

-> ''"In 1978, a Comms Department intern heard the Hotline ring and picked it up - going against every safety protocol in the manual. She never recovered, and the handful of witnesses required... extensive memory repression therapy. It is a phone. It's an Object of Power. It doesn't connect to any typical network. A direct line to the Astral Plane and the Board - and my hypothesis is, under the right conditions, to other planes of existence as well. Our very own Ouiji board. Only the Director can answer it safely, and what he hears is kept classified."''

* ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': In the episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZoneS2E58LongDistanceCall Long Distance Call]]", a recently deceased grandmother calls her five-year-old grandson on his toy telephone, urging him to kill himself so that they can be together again.