
Desert Find Reunites a Long-Lost Phone with Its Owner
In Prescott, Arizona, 84-year-old Katie Elkin finds a dusty 2012 Samsung Gusto 2 in the desert, manages to power it on, and uses texts and reverse lookups to trace the owner, Maddie in Chicago. After a decade, Maddie learns her phone was lost during a 2015 hike and is reunited with it, a tale that also highlights the surprising durability of the Gusto 2 and the ongoing mystery of recovered tech.












