Madge is scared of my cell phone

Madge is afraid of a lot of sounds--weed whackers, delivery trucks, blenders, sound effects from video games, you name it. Oddly, she's also apparently developed a fear of my Motorola Razr cell phone. I flipped it open to take a snapshot of her on Sunday afternoon, and she ran and hid behind a big chair in our living room, which is one of her customary refuges when anxiety takes over. Since I've taken a lot of cellphone pictures of her over the last couple of years, I figured that maybe I'd just moved too quickly. But when I carefully slipped it out of my pocket and slowly flipped it open this evening, she again fled and hid behind the chair.

I let her hide for few minutes to calm down, and then I grabbed the dogs' leashes and started rattling them and called out, "time for a walk!"When Joey and Kirby came running into the living room wagging their tails, she finally emerged and climbed up on the couch, which is where she sits so that I can put on her harness. This time, she put up with me snapping a few pictures of her. But even so, she seemed somber and apprehensive.

I'm not sure what to make of this new development. I tried Googling "canine fear of cell phones" but all I could find was this t-shirt from Cafe Press. Is it the shape of the phone, or did the object appear somehow menacing in my hand when I pointed it at her? Or perhaps, when I hear her roaming the house at night restlessly, is she actually browsing Wikipedia on  my laptop and reading about the effects of electromagnetic cellphone radiation?  After all, she's probably seen me using the speakerphone function and wondered what that was all about. In any case, If anybody out there has observed a similar phenomenon, please drop me a line.