A lot of contacts, documents, text messages, games and other data live on your smartphone, but manufacturers and service carriers aren’t going out of their way to make backing up easy. Gizmodo, however, has you covered on nearly any platform.
Windows Mobile 6.5: If you’re rocking a fairly new Windows Mobile phone, Microsoft offers a beta build of its portable Office applications until April 2010. That means free viewing editing of Excel, Word, Powerpoint, OneNote and other documents.
Windows Mobile/Symbian: Opera has released version 10 beta of their popular mobile browser. If you put a lot of miles on your mobile browser, Opera Mobile 10 has quite a few new features and tweaks worth the update.
If you’ve got a Windows Mobile device running the 6.0 or 6.1 system, you can now grab any of the roughly 800 apps in the Windows Mobile Marketplace.
iPhone/Android/Windows Mobile: Photoshop.com, the online home of Adobe’s market-leading image editor, has released a native photo editor and photo uploader for Android phones, and it’s a fairly versatile solution for fixing or offloading images while you’re out and about.
Yesterday we heard that an unknown something from Mozilla is headed to iPhones, but Firefox’s maker is being a bit more specific about Android: A mobile browser is in the works for the open-source phone.
My Phone, the cloud-based Windows Mobile back-up service we peeked at in beta in May, has officially launched. The free 200MB of online space for phone data remains the same, but premium users get new location and security features.
Windows Mobile/Symbian/BlackBerry/Android: If you’ve got an itch to flee your smartphone for another platform entirely, the prospect of manually dragging over your data is daunting. Sprite Migrate, a free transfer application, makes it easy to transfer pretty much everything.
Windows Mobile/Blackberry: If you have a data plan with your phone, Tiny Twitter will help you keep tabs on your friends and send out tweets without overage charges.
