there a way to recover info from a dead phone?

[Vuhelper]

there a way to recover info from a dead phone?I have almost exactly the same problem, though mine is an Alcatel phone.Photos of my parents who died shortly before the phone went dead (my Dad bought it for me).

The phone sales guy I took it to said it couldn't be charged up as something had blown in the circuit. It would need something to directly access the board memory chip. Something he didn't know how to do.