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If you’ve ever deleted a text message, phone number or ring tone from your cellphone, then wished you hadn’t, Nokia has an answer. It wants to fit mobiles with what’s known to PC users as a recycle bin.

Cellphones have limited memory, so any deletions are wiped electronically. Nokia’s idea is to remove only the link between the display and the memory when you delete something, while creating a new link to an undelete menu (GB 2370192). Text messages are wiped from the phone’s SIM card but copied to its memory. When you undelete, links are restored and messages copied…

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