So the technical information is all jacked up in this article at the Khaleej Times (phones with hard disks? ‘symptoms phones’?) but the point they’re trying to make is still valid. With the first and second generation of widespread cameraphones getting long in the tooth, many people are trading them in for new models with better features. Be careful, though, to erase all your data before trading it in – just pulling out your SIM card will not be enough.
That being said, the story on the Times is about people being able to retrieve images (and presumably data) even after you have deleted them. That may be the case, depending on how the flash memory file systems work, but that’s not the sort of thing that you usually have to worry about. Does anybody know of a phone OS or software that lets you do this?
Read – Reselling cell phones with camera has risks as pictures can be retrieved [KhaleejTimes via PicturePhoning]
