P.D.A.'s, Cel Phones and Managing Your Toys

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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A few days ago, I encountered what is to me the pluperfect penultimate device. It’s a Nokia 3300 cellular phone. It’s a 1 gig storage card MP-3 player, a P.D.A. AND a cellular phone WITH a qwerty keyboard. It’s ergonomic, and it’s cool.

Problem is, it’s not Tri-Mode so I cannot use it on Verizon Wireless’s network. So, I look around. I’d ignored the fact that my Motorola Cel Phone has a calendar. Between that and the phone book, I basically have what I need and use most, from my P.D.A. It has a calculator built in, too.

Here’s the question. Should I trust it? How do I go about backing up my data? It’s a Motorola T-730. Anyone using such a phone, and is there a way to protect the up to 500 phone numbers I can store, and calendar info?

If I can really get hoppin’ with the phone book ( which allows a decent bit of data, but no addresses unless I can fool the Name line in the phone book into accepting a lot of extra lines of text :wink: ), it’s worth regarding this as my phone and P.D.A.

Thoughts? Anyone gone down this road?

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I have a Kyocera Smartphone, which is a phone with a Palm OS PDA. The Palm part of it gets backed up to my laptop using a synch cradle. So unless the PDA and the laptop go kaput at the same time, no worries about losing data. You could even move the laptop (or desktop) stuff to a CD if you wanted to be more careful.

The batteries have occasionally gotten completely drained on my phone/PDA, and I have had to do a complete restore from the laptop. Not great, but not a huge dea.