My current impression of cell phone forensic tools

With computer forensics, you have different makes and models of computers and it generally has little effect on the analysis phase because how they each operate is standardized and follow a set of design specifications. Whereas in cell phone forensics, each cell phone manufacturer could be using their own proprietary operating system and each phone may operate completely different from other models by the same manufacturer. This makes developing an all-inclusive tool that can support all the manufacturers and models of phones very difficult and is something like hitting a moving target traveling at 200mph. By the time you develop a tool to deal with a specific phone, 5 more new ones have been released that don't follow the same standard(s).

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