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To power up a cell phone with electromagnetic induction, you would need to design it with a coil or antenna to receive the external energy and properly direct it to the phone's circuitry. For instance, I use an electronic card key to get in the door at work. The reader gives off an AC electromagnetic field, and the card key is mostly a coil to receive that energy. I seriously doubt if any electromagnetic field would be able to power up a normal cell phone. It could be done, but you'd have to design the phone to do this. Who knows?

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[I seriously doubt if any electromagnetic field would be able to power up a normal cell phone.]

 

I didn't say the phone was powered up.

 

I simply pointed out that removing a battery does not necessarily render a device "dead".

 

An RF ID tag is closer to what I'm thinking of than your key card is.