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Where to store your SIM contents? A new toy!

You have a phone with all your most important phone numbers stored on the SIM memory card. You can replace the phone if it gets stolen, but what about the numbers?

One solution is to connect it to your PC with a Bluetooth device but if that daunts you, there is a simple new toy which will allow you to plug the SIM into it, and copy all the data off.

TeleAdapt, a name well enough known to mobile computer users, is today launching the SIMBackup, a user-friendly backup/restore product geared at mobile phone users.

You make an electronic copy of the telephone numbers stored on the SIM card. If the mobile phone is lost or stolen, then the saved numbers can be written from the SIMBackup to a new SIM card quickly and easily.

It features a 12 month battery life and battery warning function, "making it the perfect backup product for business and leisure users, as well as the growing army of mobile phone equipped children and teenagers," says the press release.

"The SIMBackup is suitable for all mobile phone users, whether for business or leisure," says Gordon Brown, Managing Director, TeleAdapt. "By ensuring safe storage of important numbers, the device not only saves time by ending the laborious process of transferring numbers to a new mobile phone, but also helps minimize the inconvenience of a phone being lost or stolen."

What it can't do, of course, is copy the data which is actually stored in the phone. Most modern phones have memory far greater than the capacity of the SIM to store. Some (for example, the Orange SPV) don't even have the ability to store data on the SIM at all. For them, the Bluetooth solution from TDK Mobile is pretty much the only safe way. For those with older phones, however, twenty-five quid is a small price to pay ...

The SIMBackup is available in retail stores in the UK and Europe, and from the TeleAdapt website priced at £24.99 (inc. VAT).