Are phones allowed at your Local Blackjack Tables?

[G Man]

The casinos are afraid that people might run card counting apps in their cell phone.

Not at all. A cell phone can be used as a camera device to spot the dealer hole card or to track a shuffle. Nothing to do with counting apps. Any serious player who would need a counting app is FAR FROM A THREAT to the casinos.

[UNCBear4SJ]

Not at all. A cell phone can be used as a camera device to spot the dealer hole card or to track a shuffle.

Two or three times I've been asked to turn my phone around when it was in my breast pocket because the camera happened to be pointing out. Of course now most cell phones seem to have cameras on both faces so wonder if I'll be asked to turn the phone upside down next.