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The rapid development and grow of the mobile phones industry the possibility of they are often involved in digital crimes and digital investigation as well. Mobile forensic is fast becoming an abbreviated term that describes the process of applying digital forensics in mobile phones world. While the mobile device market provides a great variety of manufactures and models causing a strong diversity. It becomes difficult for a professional investigator to choose the proper forensics tools or technique for seizing internal data from mobile devices. This paper examines the nature of some of the newer pieces of information that can become potential evidence on mobile phones. It also discusses some of the emerging technologies and their potential impact on dead or physical damage Smart phone based evidence. Finally, the paper gives recommendation for following the best practices for investigating smartphones.INTRODUCTION:Digital forensics is an interesting fast-paced field that can have a powerful impact on a wide range of situations such as internal corporate investigations, civil litigation,criminal investigations, information gathering,and issues such as national security. As has been defined by National Security Database (NSD), digital forensics is a branch of forensic science including the retrieval and investigation of material found in-digital devices, often related to computer crime.Mobile device forensic, cellular phone forensic or mobile forensics are all synonyms to the same term which refers to the branch of digital forensics that concern with recovering of digital evidence or data from a mobile device under forensically sound conditions.Mobile Device forensic tool is to obtain data from a Mobile Device without modifying the data. Flash memory is currently the most dominant non-volatile solid-state storage technology in consumer electronic products.An increasing number of embedded systems use high level file systems comparable to the file systems used on personal computers.Current forensic tools for examination of embedded systems like mobile phones or PDAs mostly perform logical data acquisitionWith logical data acquisition its often not possible to recover all data from a storage medium. Deleted data for example, but sometimes also other data which is not directly relevant from a user standpoint,can not be acquired and potentially interesting information might be missed.For this reason data acquisition is wanted at the lowest layer where evidence can be expected. For hard disk based storage media its common to copy all bytes from the original storage device to a destination storage device and then do the analysis on this copy. The same procedure is desired for embedded systems with solid-state storage media.
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