On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 14:32:50 +1100, Krypsis >
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>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.

I've used cell phones but don't have a cell phone, I use a land line.
But I have a Brother FAX machine, I have all my contact info stored in
it and it records the contact info of every incoming... to retrieve
all my contact info all I have to do is press "PhoneBook" or "FAXBook"
and "Print". I've never heard a cell phone yet with as clear/accurate
voice reception as my Sony land line phones... cell phones aren't much
better than paper cups and string, their sound reproduction is
garbage, worse than speaker phone.