The Phone House now offers backup and transfer of mobile data in its stores across the Netherlands
By Dusan Belic on Thursday, February 19th, 2009 at 5:07 AM PST In Announcements, Mobile World Congress 2009, Services
Actually it was Cellebrite and not The Phone House that announced that visitors to the Carphone Warehouse’s Dutch group company can now securely transfer their mobile data when buying a new mobile phone.
Unfortunately, the news deals with the Netherlands market only, but I guess if this experiment proves as a success, we’ll see Carphone Warehouse expanding the offering to the other markets, too.
The system used for the backup and restore of the data is the Cellebrite’s UME-36Pro, a carrier-grade solution for mobile data transfer at the point of sale.
Among the data customers can backup/transfer to the new phone are phonebook contacts, text messages, images, videos and more. Once the data is on The Phone House’s computers, customers have a chance to get it on a 1GB USB disk drive, which is kinda neat.
