I was thinking along those lines too, probably the cheapest Droid phone out there. If you look at some specs on cameras in phones, it's easy to do better for not much more money.
I think you could probably make the phone capability be next to nil and only take a little dent on reviews. Phones haven't been phones in a while, they're just flat cameras.
I'm hoping that secondaries in those pole pigs have surge protection/cutoff, otherwise I could see every electronic device in those homes being blown out by the transients!