On 6/12/2011 8:56 PM, Tommy Joe wrote:
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> planners. Then it hit me, as maybe it should have hit me earlier -
> that the phone-number address book is hard to find these days because
> of the cellphone. People store numbers in their phones. Of course
> when their phones go down or are lost they typically have no backup as
> they have placed all their faith in the tiny electronic instruments
> that rule most people's lives.
>
> TJ
>
I keep a lot of numbers in my cell phone but not all. I still have the
address book(s) to do the heavy haulage .. and there's a lot of numbers
in there. Comes from having a huge extended family I guess.

Even if the cell phone is the only place people store numbers, there is
no reason why that critical data should not be backed up. My phone, a
Nokia, comes with backup facility so I can keep a copy of everything on
my computer. As well, I store all contact info on the sim card and not
the phone. That way, if the phone dies, I just need to move the sim card
to another phone of similar type. Learnt that lesson when I moved from a
Philips phone to a Nokia - incompatible data formats...

I NEVER place all my faith in "tiny electronic instruments" without one
or more forms of data safeguard. Anyone who does not do this is foolish.

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Krypsis