Cellebrite's (www.cellebrite.com) UFED Phone Detective is a software application provided as part of the UFED Series. It helps investigators quickly identify a mobile phone by its physical attributes, eliminating the need to open up the phone and risk phone lock.

To identify a phone, users answers eight key questions regarding the phone's appearance. Furthermore, UFED Phone Detective provides users with detailed extraction capabilities per device, connectivity details, device characteristics and more.

UFED Phone Detective Key Features:
■ Search from a database of over 4,000 phones
■ User-friendly interface: identifies a mobile phone in 8 steps or less
■ Query toolbar system based on visual elements
■ TAC value search box
■ Quick filter search tool

8 Visual Elements:
Phone type: This is the first step in the UFED Phone Detective process. You can select whether the mobile device is a candy bar, clamshell, slider, tablet, etc. This is the only category which is required.

Basic: Is the brand logo identifiable? Select the brand type: Apple, HTC, Acer, LG, etc., as well as the network technology- GSM, CDMA, etc.

Body: Here you can identify the phone by its a connection port, cable, charging socket, headphone and antennas.

Camera:You can filter the results by the camera type, location on the device, flash and other options.

Power button: Select the physical attributes of various buttons: power, volume, camera, keypad and D-pad.

Display type: Choose between touch, non-touch and stylus.

Miscellaneous: Includes battery cover type, memory card type and memory card slot.

Measurements: Enter the phone or display measurements.