Cellebrite's UME-36Pro, Universal Memory Exchanger, is a professional, stand-alone phone memory transfer and backup solution that transfers all forms of content, including pictures, videos, ringtones, SMS, as well as phonebook contact data between a wide range of mobile phones, smart phones and PDAs. The UME-36Pro was designed with the needs of the mobile phone industry in mind. Rugged and easy to use, the UME-36Pro promises mobile communication service providers years of service thanks to Cellebrite's constant firmware updates that keep the UME-36Pro current with the latest cellular phone models. The UME-36Pro operates with the ease, speed and reliability that customers have come to expect from Cellebrite.
MAIN FEATURES AND CAPABILITIES
Based on Windows CE
Supports transfer of content across all mobile handset technologies - GSM, CDMA, UMTS, 3G, TDMA, IDEN and more
Transfer of phones internal memory and SIM card content
Transfer of phonebooks, pictures, videos, ring-tones, and SMS
Supports multiple language encodings
Available connectivity: USB, Serial, IrDA and Bluetooth connections to phones
Transfer, backup and restore of mobile phone content
Supports Symbian, Microsoft Mobile Palm, and BlackBerry operating systems
Integrated SIM/Smart Card reader
Integrated PC connection allowing content backup and management
Stand-alone device or an integrated PC solution
User-friendly and self-explanatory
Easily upgraded through software file downloads
Another factoid from the story is that the MI police apparently have a whopping five of these in the entire state. It would seem to follow that a phone would need to be formally seized to be thus read in most traffic cases.
Seems that more serious questions would arise from using what is marketed as a cell phone provider gadget for the ease of providing customer service (like for exchanges or upgrades of old phones), in a legal and evidence capacity. Is the device legally certified to get everything right? It, and any police action taken relying on it, could suffer in court that way much as uncalibrated breathalyzers do.