New Tool for Recording and Displaying Evidence from Cell Phones and Handheld Devices

Project-a-Phone, Inc. has released of its high-resolution Image Capture and Display system for mobile phones, PDAs, and other handheld communications devices. The ICD-5000 provides a simple, affordable way to record evidence from cell phones or to present it in the courtroom. The device targets law enforcement officers, forensics examiners, and litigators.

Evidence from handheld devices has become ubiquitous in criminal and civil cases. With Project-a-Phone, there is now an effective way to present this evidence in the courtroom. Bill Napieralski, Tigard, Oregon Police Department Detective and cell phone forensics instructor explains, "I really like to show exactly what certain messages or calls looked like on the screen. To actually show someone a picture of the message has significant impact."

Project-a-Phone devices are also used to record evidence from phones. Although there are other tools for "acquiring" raw data from phones, Project-a-Phone is the only one designed to record screen shots and video clips directly from virtually any device. "It is a compact, self-contained tool that saves investigators considerable time in cell phone forensics," summarized Keith Daniels of the National Consortium for Justice Information and Statistics.

The ICD-5000 rounds out the Project-a-Phone product line, whose ICD-300 is currently used by law firms and by law enforcement at the federal, state, and local levels worldwide. The ICD-5000 high-resolution sensor makes it ideal for live, large-screen courtroom presentations or for creating visual displays from snapshots of phone screens.

More information is available on the Project-a-Phone website at www.projectaphone.com.