Day by day smartphones are emerging with something new in them. New in terms of camera quality, display quality, battery backup, features, etc. Everyone wants to upgrade their smartphone. So they buy new smartphones according to their budget.
But what happens to their old smartphones? Obviously people sell them. And this is when people sell their identity. Whenever you sell your smartphone it means you are selling your identity as well as memories. You want to know how? Come let’s find out together.
Some facts and figures about smartphones:
- There are more iPhone sold per day than number of people born in world per day.
- Daily 80,000 used smartphones are for sale online.
No. 1 antivirus making company AVAST took the initiative to carry out the following survey. It purchased 20 used smartphones that supposedly have all phone data deleted. But what Avast found in those smartphone is hilarious.
See the picture below to know how much media files can still remain your smart phone whose data you might have deleted.
Now come to browsing part. You have left thousands of search history results in used smartphone.
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Moving on to text messages, emails and contacts. Around 250 contacts are found on phone and 750 plus emails and messages.
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Here comes the major part i.e. identity. Each used smartphone contains identity of 4 previous phone users.
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At least 1 complete application (if used phone is from USA then maximum chances of this application is of loan).
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Conclusion:
If you don’t want to lose your identity and memories on your phone before selling, then make sure you have good antivirus on it. Before selling wipe of all data from phone using antivirus.
There are many free and premium antivirus for smartphone. Choose any free or paid antivirus that has through wipe feature. So that your data will be deleted permanently. We will recommend Avast for phone (I itself tried it).
Steps to delete all data permanently from phone.
- Install Avast! Anti-Theft feature from Google Play for free.
- Configure Avast! Anti-theft with your my.avast account.
- Turn on “Through wipe” feature within app.
No you are all done. Your data will be permanently deleted and your phone also saved from theft incidents.
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