Her cell phone on the bedside table started ringing.
Her cell phone started ringing on the bedside table.
anonymous Her cell phone started ringing on the bedside table. This one. There is no reason to make the reader wait for the predicate if you start with "her", and the other one makes it sound like she had a different cell phone somewhere else.
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anonymousHer cell phone started ringing on the bedside table.
This one. There is no reason to make the reader wait for the predicate if you start with "her", and the other one makes it sound like she had a different cell phone somewhere else. It's hard to say why, but with "the", the other one is the only right one: "The cell phone on the bedside table star