You’ve heeded advice about backing-up your PC. You’ve even caught onto the benefits of using a flash drive (versus the old floppy disk) for making sure you take key files with you when you need. And then… there are your cell phone contacts, contacts which you’ve labored to load over time…
   
Now you can back up those cell phone contacts, and take them with you too…

Thanks to the Phonebook Flasher (don’t love the name, do love the concept) you no longer need be vulnerable to starting all over again with your copious contacts should your cell phone go missing (or find itself, let’s say, in the bathtub, after being handled by an overzealous toddler).
 

Back up your cell phone as easily as you back up a PDA… The Phonebook Flasher works in fact like a USB flash drive for your cell phone; simply plug it in, push a button, and it backs up your phonebook to this drive. You can then plug it into a new phone and upload your contacts just as easily. Though compact, it can hold up to 10,000 contacts (is anyone THAT connected)?

There are other practical advantages to it, too… Once you’ve backed up your contacts to this drive, you can upload them to your PC (and then edit them more easily than you might on your phone)… or convert them to other mobile phone formats. The Phonebook Flasher sells for about $21; different models align with Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Samsung phones. Available at usb.brando.com.hk