iPhone Upgrading

If you're thinking about upgrading to Apple's new iPhone 5 when it debuts in a few weeks, you're going to have to figure out what to do with your current device. Given how much we've come to rely on these gadgets for storing pictures, contacts, and personal information, some serious privacy issues should be considered before selling, recycling or trading in your old phone. Typically , you restore factory settings on your smartphone before parting ways. But a couple of recent articles on NBCNews.com and Yahoo.com find that factory resets are inconsistent , depending on the phone. Blackberry and Apple reset appear to delete and scrub personal data the best, according to data retrieval experiments described in the articles.