As our reliance on smartphones continues to grow, so does the fear of losing all the information they contain — and for good reason. Fierce competition among handset manufacturers and carriers has resulted in a chaotic, seemingly impenetrable jungle of incompatible makes and models with backup and recovery functionality that often proves complicated to use. Though mobile device manufacturers typically build in data backup and restore applications into their wares, they are typically limited not just to the manufacturer or carrier but to a single model or even version of a single model.
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Answering Smartphone Users’ Calls for Backup
Posted by: Andrew K. Burger March 18, 2008 04:00 AMAs our reliance on smartphones continues to grow, so does the fear of losing all the information they contain — and for good reason. Fierce competition among handset manufacturers and carriers has resulted in a chaotic, seemingly impenetrable jungle of incompatible makes and models with backup and recovery functionality that often proves complicated to use. Though mobile device manufacturers typically build in data backup and restore applications into their wares, they are typically limited not just to the manufacturer or carrier but to a single model or even version of a single model.