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What you need to know before you resell your smartphone

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Are you ready to sell your smartphone? Maybe upgrade to something nicer? Well, be careful about which phone you sell. The I-Team's Dana Fowle reports that not all smartphones are made alike. 

A Blackberry, an Android phone and an iPhone -- one of these, according to a security expert, is not like the others. One of these he says no matter how you clean it has a big chance of going to its new owner with some of your private information on it.

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