They did a piece on the local news the other night on the safety of cell phone info. It seem that when you turn in your old phone,donate it ,etc.,you think you have erased all the info.So these news people bought "old" cell phones from around the states to see if everything really was erased,seems it isn't. It's like your computer hard drive,I guess.They were able to pull up all sorts of stuff on these various phones. Their suggestion was to take it to your local authorized cell phone place and have them erase it all.