The iPhone may be a great smartphone, but as a substitute for a firearm in committing an armed robbery, it leaves something to be desired. That's what Jerome Taylor discovered yesterday when he tried to rob an Indian restaurant in New London, Connecticut, with his Apple mobile.

Taylor, 20, wearing a mask, entered the Northern Indian restaurant through a service entrance yesterday afternoon and demanded money from the eatery's cooks with what they thought was a small handgun, the New London...