Recover Deleted Cell Phone Text Messages

Tue Mar 28, 2006 1:59PM EST

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This curious blog post consists of three sentences, touting a product (pictured) which, for $277, lets you read deleted SMS messages from a cell phone's SIM card. Just slide the SIM card into this gizmo, which looks like a USB key, and you can access up to 20 of the most recently deleted SMS messages on the card. (The principle is the same as with deleted files on your PC: They aren't really deleted until some other data overwrites them.)

But click the link and you get... a big picture of the reader. No details, and I'm not sure where this $277 price comes from, either.

Further research reveals that such products do exist, at least in software form. InsideOut Forensics, which operates out of Norway, sells a $95 software application to recover deleted SMS messages as well as a card reader (which costs another $35). That's much cheaper than this mystery product, with the added bonus that, you know, the InsideOut product actually exists.

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  • 1 Posted by macmomma4ever on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:02PM EDT Report Abuse

    Does anyone know if this works on CDMA phones like the palm treo 650?

  • 2 Posted by mcmanawayheather on Thu Sep 3, 2009 7:13PM EDT Report Abuse

    can you recover all text messages from a nokia cell phone that doen't have a sim car?

  • 3 Posted by ronalainventer on Thu Sep 3, 2009 8:49PM EDT Report Abuse

    You can buy them here at the oriental plaza for around +-$17.

  • 4 Posted by plainolddog on Thu Sep 3, 2009 8:14PM EDT Report Abuse

    has anyone actually used simcon? And does it undelete all text messages from say sprint?

  • 5 Posted by jenmar1 on Thu Sep 3, 2009 4:32PM EDT Report Abuse

    Has anyone found out how to retrieve messages from a cdma phone. I have a smart phone that should have a hard drive like a pc. Would my messages be retrievable?

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