If you travel a lot, like us, your cell phone may be your only phone. I love the feature that you can keep your little black book of phone numbers right in your phone. Then, when someone calls who is in my phone list, I even see their name on the caller ID. If I lost this phone, or it broke, it would be difficult or impossible to recreate that phone list.
In our Computer Education business we are evangelists for doing backups on your computer. Well, cell phones today are also computers. So I was thrilled when a friend mentioned that he uses Verizon’s free service to back up his phone online! I’m not sure if other carriers offer this service, but for Verizon, you go to www.verizonwireless.com and log into your personal account. If you haven’t created a personal online account, you will need to register.
Once you’re logged in, find ‘Tools & Applications’ ; Business/Tools ; Backup Assistant. You need to download this to your phone. On my phone (the LG enV) I did it with the ‘Get it Now’ option. You would need to find the instructions for your phone. Once it is downloaded, it will automatically backup your address book every day! As long as the phone is on, and it has signal – the backup happens automatically. How cool is that!?
Once the backup is done, you can access your address book on your computer as well as on your phone. So, if you should ever lose your phone you can just download the numbers to your new phone!
Chris Guld
www.GeeksonTour.com