1.1 Introduction
In the digital forensics field, the mobile phone device of the suspect is a valuable source of potential digital evidence. Digital forensics of mobile phones is intent to recover digital evidence using forensically sound methods, so that it can be presented and accepted in court. Manual acquisition is an easy method to retrieve data from mobile phones (Zareen et al., 2010). The investigator uses the phone keypad to get the phone content. The advantages of this method are that it is the simplest one and it requires no training for the investigator to know how to retrieve phone content. It works with all phone models and does not require any cables to perform data acquisition. The disadvantage of this method is that, it does not preserve the integrity of the evidence. Also, it does not extract all data on the mobile phone such as deleted and hidden files. Another disadvantage is, if the device is in the off state or protected by security key, the investigator cannot perform manual acquisition.
As a prelude to other parts of this study, this chapter will discuss the background upon which this study was initiated, the statement of problems that led to this study, the Aim and Objectives of the study. Others are Significance of the study, Scope of work, Limitations of the Study and Definition of technical terms.
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