When did you last backup your handset contacts?

Got another email. It drives me nuts, it really does. I got another email from a friend who’s lost their phone. It’s no biggie, o2 are sending them out a new handset tomorrow morning. But she reckons 216 irreplaceable contacts have been lost. She’s managed to piece together about 50 numbers from email messages — but she only just cleared out her mailbox last week to make space (she’s not a Gmail user) so much of her business contacts are gone, gone, gone… until they email her. Arse.

If you’re running Exchange, Good Mobile Messaging, Blackberry or similar, lost/stolen handsets aren’t much of an issue. Get a new one, synchronise it, you’re done.

But if you’re using a normal phone … Let me ask you this: Have you backed up your contacts recently?

Mobyko and Zyb are two companies specialising in backing up your handset’s contacts (and more). You can be backing up your contacts in seconds with either service. If you lose your handset, just re-synchronise your handset and woosh, your entire address book arrives back on your handset right-away. Invaluable and really, really easy to setup. If you haven’t… do it!

Check them out and get your contacts backed up today.