Monday, January 14, 2013

Free and secure ways to back up Mobile contacts online

Monday, January 14, 2013
Contacts & notes on our mobile are precious personal assets that we build up with time to keep in touch with friends, family, colleagues & clients but seldom preserve with caution.Any undesirable incident of a lost, damaged or stolen phone, crashed OS, data corruption or accidental deletion may do the damage anytime.A variety of free tools & online services are available that sync & back up your contacts, notes & other important data securely on the go.Let's take a look !

1.Everdroid : Formerly, Mobical, it supports even low-end phones.Once you setup a free account and choose your handset from its inventory, it shows up the handset settings.After you are done you can back-up or restore contacts, notes, calendars & bookmarks, edit them online & re-sync on your mobile seamlessly.
Pros : Supports multiple devices, apps available on Android & Apple iOS.
Cons : No proper SMS or Media back-up support.

2. Anywr : It has a variety of social features like messaging & micro-blogging in addition to contact & calendar sync & back up.One can import & sync contacts from Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail & Outlook.

3. Bloove : With a plane jane interface, it can take with hassle-free automatic backups.After registering an account, one needs to point the mobile browser to bloove.com/m to download the Bloove agent.The access permission of the apps for reading/writing user data & network access need to be granted for it to take automatic back ups.
Pros : Automatic sync ,contact archiving feature for rarely used contacts.
Cons : Multiple devices, restoration of data to mobile & addition of multiple devices not supported in the free plan.

Apart from these services here are some useful Apps in this category : 
1. Backup Contacts (by Red Rock AS): An Android app that backs up contacts on various redundant locations -SD card, your Drop box account, on your email as attachment.

2. Super Backup- SMS & contacts : It is a total backup solution for your mobile-backs up 
A snapshot of Super Backup App

contacts, SMS, apps, bookmarks & more on phones's external memory or mail.Before starting to use it the default backup location of your phone needs to be set to external storage.












3. mBackup : An app developed by a team of researchers & students of IIIT-Delhi (India) is supported on Android & Symbian platforms.
  It requires a Dropbox account with which one can backup contacts, SMS & other mobile data & can even restore it to a new mobile device.
 
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