The CAT S61 is the latest entry in a line of phones that prove that phones can be much more than entertainment devices, they can be true, functional tools.

That’s Ripley, my tuxedo cat. (Yes, he is named after Sigourney Weaver’s character in Alien .) A while back I uploaded a picture and a Vine of Ripley to my phone.

I bought tickets to CatVideoFest 2024, showing at my local art house theater, for myself and my two daughters, who mostly think that smart phones were invented so they could watch cat videos on ...