Depending on what phone you've got, backing up your contacts, messages and pictures can either be really easy or a complete nightmare. Hopefully, you've got a phone that's relatively straightforward, ...

Cell phones keep getting sleeker and smaller, which means they are also getting easier to lose or misplace. For instance, Motorola's latest model, the SLVR, is so thin and light, you'd hardly notice ...

A neat idea to back up your contacts from both your SIM card and cell phone memory in one fell swoop, the Back-Up Pal keeps safe all your contact info, whilst ignoring ringtones and SMS messages ...

How many phone numbers do you know by heart? Relying on tech to remember such things can feel precarious, but there are just too many details for our brains to store. So it makes sense to defer to our ...

As high-tech and advanced as all our modern mobile devices are, there's no way of getting around basic user errors. Luckily, the makers of your mobile devices kept such errors in mind. That is why we ...

Free, cross-platform software BitPim lets you backup and manage your cell phone data (including contacts, calendar, wallpapers, and ringtones) on a number of popular phones. It looks like BitPim ...

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For many of us, our mobile phones contain crucial files that we just can't do without. Important messages and contacts, precious photos, and your favourite music are some of these types of files. If ...

If you’ve ever wished you could easily search through your cell phone voice mail messages or save all of your text messages, SkyDeck has a solution. It’s one of several offerings on the market ...

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To restore your new phone, open Finder or iTunes, and connect your phone to your computer. Click Trust when prompted, and ...

The way people lose cell phones, you would think they are disposable, and for the consumers who get them gratis for signing service plans offered by the big mobile carriers, that may not be far from ...