In the majority of legal cases, the examiner can recover and analyze the cell phone’s evidence and generate forensic tool reports for the legal team's review for an average cost of $3,000 to $5,000. Each smartphone takes approximately 8 to 12 hours of lab time. Factors that go to cost include how much storage or memory capacity is built into the smartphone. How accessible the smartphone’s evidence is given possible damage, missing or incorrect passcodes, or data encryption. And how many hours of analysis are needed. Last, a critical factor is how many cell phone forensic tools are required to recover and analyze the material evidence upon which the dispute will turn, especially deleted or hidden evidence.