October 6, 2004
Losing Cellphone No Longer Means Loss of Contact
New tools are making it easier for cellphone users who lose or break their phones to piece back together their phonebooks, reports the WSJ.
"Carriers and technology companies are rolling out services that back up phonebooks wirelessly.
-- Verizon Wireless - has announced a new $1.99-a-month tool. Subscribers with certain handsets made by LG Electronics Inc. and Kyocera Corp. can sign up for the service, which launched last week. They can go to a menu choice on their phone called Get It Now, and download the application, called Backup Assistant. The fee is added to their monthly bill
-- Nextel has offered a similar service, called Address Book, for four years. The feature works on every Nextel phone, for $5 a month.
-- And a small Australian company offers a service that it says works with some U.S. handsets. It's free -- until you need to restore your backed-up data.
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