what is the best cell phone effect?

You should try avoiding using the word "best". I personally like Pressure.

can you really do it with a borrowed balloon?

It works with pretty much any party-type balloon. No balloon-animal balloons will work. So I guess you could say it can be borrowed.

prep?

That's the best part of this effect. 100% impromptu.

huh, i saw VID on youtube and it showed A LOT of prep, but i trust you WAY more.

That's good to hear. That's gotta be something else then because Pressure is 1) Take normal balloon 2) Take borrowed cell phone 3) Phone penetrates balloon. No set-up at all.

haha, must be.

Don't buy pressure, you'll feel ripped off. I'll give you a hint, do what it looks like.

Get curve ball, or ring tone.

mixed signals!

If your looking for something that specifically requires a cell phone because of how they work, don't get pressure. You can shove next to anything in a balloon using pressure. It's a neat effect, but not worth the price.

CURVEBALL

Benji, you being a working mentalist, how is curve ball really? It really sounds too good to be true.

Pressure was ridiculous. I almost wasted my money and then finally figured it out on my own. Enough time thinking about it and you CAN figure it out without paying for it. I would've felt ripped off had I bought it.

I am by no means a professional and know my performance is not where it needs to be, but I've seen Pressure done three times by three different pros and (all performances were decent-great) and (ironically the worst performer out of the three) only one of the three got good reactions from it. The other twos' audiences were like "...ok?"

I can't offer any alternatives, but I highly recommend staying away from Pressure.