"phone failed" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you want to inform someone that an attempt to contact them over the phone has not been successful. For example, "I tried to call you, but the phone failed."
When his phone failed to ring early Friday morning, Mr. Gore assumed he had been passed over.
During the week the phone failed to make it past 11pm after leaving the charger at 7.30am in the morning.
Now chairman of JET Education Services in South Africa, Ratcliffe declined to elaborate and his phone failed to respond for the rest of the day.
Still, ESPN employees here remain true believers: their phone failed, they say, because of consumers' reluctance to change phone carriers, not because of any lack of interest in mobile content.
But efforts to require voters to pick up absentee ballots in person and sign affidavits rather than request them over the phone failed when the federal Justice Department ruled against the proposals, saying the proposed regulations discriminated against minorities.
So will N-Gage the platform succeed where N-Gage the phone failed?
If the Amazon phone fails to sell in mass quantities, nothing will change inside the retail giant.
I asked myself this because you routinely tell people you will call or even that you are actually calling and yet the phone fails to ring.
My thinking at the time was that the challenge of searching for answers would be much greater if the unknown I wanted to explore was how our brain functions rather than why a mobile phone fails.
The latest models have the "Weatherband/Emergency Band" and will also charge your cell phone, thus if your cell phone fails in a disaster, it will be that the cell phone towers, their infrastructure will be damaged, even destroyed.
Its overseas investments soured, and its latest phones failed to catch on with finicky consumers.
