Toby Ziegler's Cell Phone (personal mobile device)

Toby's cell phone functions as the immediate potential lifeline — he reaches for it when told of the President's accident, representing his instinct to seek information and regain control, but is physically prevented from using it until landing.

Toby's cell phone is the tactile immediate lifeline he reaches for as soon as he hears the President may be injured; it embodies his urgent need to access information and react, though crew protocol prevents its use until landing.

Sam places a handheld cell phone beside the pager and announces he won't take it — another deliberate gesture to disconnect. Though not explicitly identified as his phone model, it functions as the modern tether to crisis; its placement dramatizes the choice to abstain even as the ringing desk phone pulls him back.

Toby's pocket-sized cell phone functions as the connective tissue between private worship and public crisis. He holds it to his shoulder to listen to the rabbi, toggles it back to his ear for Sam, receives the denial, and then pockets it as he prepares to leave — converting spiritual reflection into immediate action.

Toby's pocket-sized cell phone functions as the bridge between private interiority and public machinery: he extracts it and dials immediately, using the device to convert ethical concern into a sequence of calls that will compel administrative response.

Toby's cell phone functions as the literal and symbolic conduit that collapses private worship into public crisis: it carries Sam's strategic call into the sanctuary, lets Toby hear the rabbi's sermon, and transmits the legal news that triggers immediate action.