A very interesting and informative article written by Ed Hardy at Brighthand.com.

Mobile security software provider Trust Digital recently performed an experiment. Company engineers bought ten mobile devices on eBay and looked to see how much of the previous owner’ information was still left on them.

As it turns out, they found a very large amount.

These devices yielded nearly 27,000 pages of personal and corporate data. This included personal banking and tax information, corporate sales activity notes, corporate client records, product roadmaps, contact address books, phone and Web logs, calendar records, personal and business correspondence, computer passwords, user medication information, and other private, competitive, or potentially damaging material.

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The first thing I noticed when I put the skin on my SDA was the feel - I loved the soft rubber feel of it. I was concerned that the rubber might be susceptible to accumulating dust really quickly, but the opposite is true. Even in my lint-filled jeans pocket, it stays clean. Another nice benefit, if you’re like me, was that the phone no longer falls sideways in your pocket, but stays upright as I want it to. Sounds like a small thing, but it makes a huge comfort difference when you always have your phone in your front jeans pocket.

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