Comments on: Lost Cellphone? Your Carrier Has Your Backup

By: Adam Wolf

Adam Wolf — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:02:45 +0000

Also check out Cellesync - www.cellesync.com

(Full disclosure - I do work with their parent company.)

By: chiqfliq

chiqfliq — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:58:22 +0000

One alternative to paying monthly fees is enlisting a service like Intelifact.com - There's a fee for looking up each number on the website, but depending on the size of your contact list and the information you're looking for, they can do bulk rates. This is also a good alternative if you need a number fast (they can deliver within ten minutes - which is nice if you need a number during a time that's outside the service hours of your provider).

By: HTCNewbie

HTCNewbie — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:40:50 +0000

Another way is signing up with third party providers like lostmycontacts.com. Once you login with your access information from your carrier, they will send you a list of all your contacts with matching names and phone numbers. As far as I know, the carriers can only provide you with the list of phone numbers that you call (within a certain period). Lostmycontacts matches the phone numbers with names.

By: William H. Magill

William H. Magill — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:36:41 +0000

You forgot to mention Apple’s iPhone backup system …. both using OSX and MobileMe.

Lets you maintain your address book and calendar on your Mac and push the updates to your iPhone.

By: jayson david

jayson david — Wed, 15 Apr 2009 10:12:05 +0000

Well if your on nokia it just a matter of connecting your phone through USB on PC Suite and it will automatically sync. And the Nokia PC suite has also a backup utility to back up your phone memory and memory card.

By: Saprala Jones

Saprala Jones — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:47:01 +0000

This is a great post, losing mobiles is a very unpleasant experience. I’d like to add that there is a great mobile backup, sync and share service called vufone which can be found on vufone .com. The vufone service enables restoring the backed up data to a different device

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By: Anmol Bedi

Anmol Bedi — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 10:36:55 +0000

Losing mobile is very common nowadays, I already had such experience, But Thank God I was using Vopium Sync, it automatically make backup of your mobile data, I found it very good, I think instead of going to your service provider for data; you can manage your contacts by your self.

By: Miles long

Miles long — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 17:43:13 +0000

Should of mention how Palm plans to do it with the Pre, all your info can be sync online.