Once upon a time, Brian May of Queen, was appearing on This Morning (a rather saccharine UK daytime chat show). He was distraught. Someone had stolen his Psion Series 3a organiser (a pre-cursor to today's Symbian powered smartphones). It's probably the first time a national appeal was put out for a lost PDA, and brain was more than hapy for whoever found it to keep the machine with his blessing... as long as they returned the backup disk to him so he wouldn't loose his information.
I like this story for two reasons. The first is that whenever I remember it, I invariably go and back up all my machines (which is a good thing). The second is remembrering that the most important thing isn't the phone I'm currently using, or any super specced brummie variants due out in the near future - it's what's on the phone that's important.
How may of you back up your phone on a regular basis to your PC? And how many people will (hopefully) run off and back up theior phones now on reading this article? More to te point, there will be poeple out there who rely on backing up to an MMC Card or Memory Stick. Which is great in itself, but I bet you leave it in the machine all the time. Which is great as long as any crash doesn't corrupt the card, or if your phone is stolen.
One of the things I have endless problems with is switching phones. All the handsets in my "Little Cupboard of Q" are running Symbian OS. Heck at least half of them are running Series 60 in some form or another. So why is it when I need to switch handsets for entirely sensible reasons it's such a headache to move my information from one to the other? Palm Desktop never had a trouble with moving data, third party apps, and all the registration codes. Anyone care to comment why their Desktop solution was (and is) regarded as the best all round solution?