Cellphone A cellphone also called PHS , handset , COMM , or phone or smartphone is a mobile electronic device used to make mobile telephone calls across a wide geographic area . It first appeared in the " Compilation of Final Fantasy VII " where , in terms of function and appearance , a PHS is the same as s in the real world . First introduced in " Final Fantasy VII " as the Personal Handheld System , used by the player party to communicate with each other during the game , the mechanic continued over to other games in the Compilation ; appearing to serve much the same purpose in " Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - " , " Dirge of Cerberus - Final Fantasy VII - " and " Final Fantasy VII : Advent Children " , and becoming both a plot device and gameplay mechanic in " Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII - " . On the release of " Final Fantasy : Advent Children " , the Panasonic FOMA P900iV mobile phone was released to coincide with the Compilation as an affiliated product . The model acted as the template for all future appearances of the PHS devices in the compilation . Appearances . " Final Fantasy VII " . " PHS " ( " Portable Handheld System " or " Party Henshu ( Editing ) System " ) , the means of switching party members at Save point s and on the world map , is a cellphone . Cloud receives it in Kalm from his allies after they escape Midgar . Barret temporarily holds it in Lower Junon so it does not get waterlogged when Cloud has to swim . Later on in the story , if Cait Sith is not in the party at the Temple of the Ancients , and during the second visit to the Forgotten Capital , he will contact Cloud via the PHS to inform him of his plan to sacrifice his body and alert the party of the Sister Ray cannon ' s transfer from Junon to Midgar , respectively . In the " Reunion Files " for " " , Tetsuya Nomura states that PHS stands for " Party Henshu ( Editing ) System " . The phone prominently featured in " Final Fantasy VII : Advent Children " and future " Compilation " installments is the Panasonic FOMA P900iV product - placement , which helped market both the movie and the phone . In " Advent Children Complete " , it is shown that the background of Cloud ' s cellphone has the Fenrir emblem watermarked behind the menu . The game ' s living main characters ( except Red XIII , Cait Sith and Vincent Valentine who buys one after Marlene comments on how he doesn ' t have a phone and calls Cloud in the Reminiscence of " Final Fantasy VII " ) , as well as Rufus Shinra , the Turks and the movie ' s antagonists , Yazoo , Loz and Kadaj , all own a phone . It is Cloud ' s phone , however , that features the most prominently . Cloud ' s phone became a symbol of his isolation after he learned he has contracted Geostigma , adding insult to injury for his self - imposed guilt of failing to prevent the deaths of Aerith and Zack . Cloud no longer answers his calls , forcing callers to leave voice messages , and he rarely , if ever , calls them back . Tifa scolds Cloud for isolating himself using the phone as an example , saying " you don ' t answer the phone , but I don ' t see you throwing it away either " . Later , during Cloud ' s scuffle against the three Remnants of Sephiroth at the Forgotten Capital , he accidentally drops his phone in the lake . When Cloud ' s phone reaches the lake bottom , Aerith ' s spirit leaves a message on it before it deactivates . As a joke in the film , during his entrance in the battle against Bahamut SIN , Vincent asks Tifa where the cellphone store is , as he lacks one . Shortly after the events of the movie , as chronicled in " Reminiscence of Final Fantasy VII " , Vincent acquires a phone , revealed in " Dirge of Cerberus - Final Fantasy VII - " to sport his trademark dirge design . In a humorous instance , he calls Cloud to pass on a message to Yuffie Kisaragi to tell her she has no right to call him . In fact most of the dialogue in " Reminiscence " are phone conversations , as none of the characters are seen outside of the " Final Fantasy VII " montages . In a humorous scene , Loz ' s ringtone is the beginning snippet of the " Final Fantasy VII " " Victory Fanfare " , as it rings shortly after Tifa narrowly " defeats " him in Aerith ' s church before he gets back up and answers it . " Before Crisis - Final Fantasy VII - " . Part of standard Turk equipment , the player Turks use their cellphones to receive orders from Veld or Tseng and keep in contact with their superiors and each other . With the phones they can report emergency information or be given on - the - spot instructions . " Dirge of Cerberus - Final Fantasy VII - " . Vincent has acquired a phone bearing his dirge design , though it is thought to be destroyed during the attack on Edge . Cloud has gained a new phone to replace the one he lost in " Advent Children " , identical to his original . " Crisis Core - Final Fantasy VII - " . Despite taking place before the original game , the phones featured in " Crisis Core " are the same models as those of " Advent Children " and " Dirge of Cerberus " . Zack periodically receives e - mail from numerous contacts , as well as important calls . Called " handsets " , the cellphones are seen as a standard issue among SOLDIER members . Angeal Hewley , Zack , and Sephiroth have been seen using them , and Kunsel gives Zack a crash course on how to use his . It can be assumed that the menu ( or at least , the missions menu ) is what Zack reviews on his cellphone screen , as Angeal accesses his phone in that way to abort a training session in the Virtual Reality System Room at Shinra HQ . The phones also appear have a limited but effective worldwide network communication interfacing system , allowing Zack online remote access to businesses to purchase or sell items . " Final Fantasy XIII " . In Palumpolum , Lightning and Fang contact Snow and Hope via a communicator to agree to a rendezvous point . Hope asks to talk to Lightning and says he is going through with his plan of revenge despite Lightning ' s objections , then discards the communicator so Lightning can ' t contact him again . The two groups later find each other and head for Hope ' s home together . Lightning and Hope keep in contact via a wireless communicator , albeit the exact way the system works is never shown in - game . The only place where Hope cannot listen in on Lightning ' s doings is when Lumina pulls her into a metaphysical location apparently existing inside her own heart . There were plans to have Lightning talk to her friends on a smartphone for the epilogue , but instead it was decided to leave ambiguous as to where she is heading , and who she is going to meet . " Final Fantasy XV " . The people of Lucis use smartphones . Prince Noctis ' s model , called Crown City Smartphone in the inventory , is said to be made for the Crownsguard ' s use . He uses is to keep in communication with various people , and is sometimes seen playing a mobile game King ' s Knight on it during rest times . Some of the random field banter is also about the mobile game . Sometimes he gets calls concerning quests at the start of a day after resting . In the " Platinum Demo – Final Fantasy XV " the young Noctis communicates with a Carbuncle using a smartphone . " Final Fantasy Type - 0 " . " Crystal Oriented Messaging Medium " ( COMM ) are the communication devices used by the cadets of Akademeia . This is how Mog and other support personnel keep in contact with cadets while on the field . In the novel , the COMM is described as a small white spherical device no more than 2cm in diameter . During Capital Liberation Izana Kunagiri is deployed to deliver a COMM to Ace , as Class Zero ' s involvement in the capital liberation was top secret until the last minute , and it suddenly became pertinent to link the cadets to the operation HQ . While the cadets are ambushed in Ingram , they find that the COMM is not working . They escape the city to a deserted house in old Lorican region , where they are worried the COMM is still not responding even if it appears to be working . Cinque points out that the Vermilion Bird Crystal , that powers the COMM , must be unharmed seeing that Rem Tokimiya , a cadet in their class who relies on the Crystal to wield magic , still has her powers . Eight speculates that some kind of " jammer " is in place to stop their communications . In the morning , Deuce exclaims the COMM is working again and that she has reached the dominion . When the cadets get back , they learn they are being accused for having disabled their own COMM to prevent communications .