Kyle M. F. Williams bought 44 Razr phones on eBay in broken condition. This is what he found inside.
Text message from a phone sold as "broken" on eBay
New York artist Kyle M. F. Williams had the idea of a covering a razor scooter in Razr phones as a piece of sculpture. On eBay, he found a lot of 44 Razr phones from a seller who appeared to be a electronics repair shop out of Texas being sold in "as-is" condition for only $89 total.
"I assumed they would all be broken, or wiped, but when I got them I found that half of them still had texts, sexts, pics, and vids. So I took a couple days and figured out how to dump all the content from the phones onto my computer," Williams told me. Using Amazon's print on demand publishing service, he is selling a paperback book out of the images, titled Razr .
Why would someone leave personal information on their phone? Williams suspects the owners weren't stupid, they were just unlucky. "Maybe all the Razrs I bought were the ones he couldn't fix and the original owners didn't care to erase 'em and scooped up a cool new Droid or something instead. Also, I bet nobody actually knew how to wipe these things. It takes like 10 steps to delete a photo in that shitty menu system. Who's gonna do that for every sexy image you have in 'My Pix & Flix'."
Photo of a small jar of marijuana
Sext message (I blacked out recipient's name, but Google reveals he's a Christian musician/motivational speaker)
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