How to Backup Your Smart Phone

Lucas123 writes "According to a Computerworld story there will be 8 million cell phones/smart phones lost this year. The site describes how to easily back up data on handhelds. The piece also addresses the future of these technologies: 'In Dulaney's opinion, traditional USB syncing "will die." Gartner is telling its corporate customers they should hasten this process by not permitting their employees to sync to their PCs. He explains this by saying that individual end users can create distributed computing and security problems because they are poor data administrators. Moreover, he adds, PCs are not necessarily more reliable than cell phones. Drake gives a qualified endorsement of wireless e-mail as the master application for backing up and syncing data, saying the technology is fine for dedicated e-mail environments but insufficient for corporate environments that require a vast array of wireless applications.'"

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yeah thats just want i want

[OutOnARock]

all my contacts and sensitive data in the hands of my cell service provider.

"Oh you want to leave, I'm sorry but our backups failed and your data is gone..."

"Oh you decided to stay, guess what, we've found that backup...."

Re:No longer an issue

[trolltalk.com]

So you want to sync a 1 or 2-gig phone card? 2 gigabytes = 16 gigabits. That's a LOT of $$$.

I'll stick to my USB cable - fast, easy to use under linux - no special drivers needed.