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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.
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Dusan Belic
Dusan has been using smartphones since their introduction and is now following the latest trends in the industry. The "convergence" is what he's most excited about, and writing about it is the next logical thing to do. He thinks that using a smartphone is what everyone who cares about their time should do. In addition to his interests in mobile phones, Dusan also loves to experiment with the latest web and mobile 2.0 services. The idea of accessing and managing your information from any device no matter where you are simply amazes him. Whether it's an online to-do list, note taking service or a video sharing social network, he's there to try it out. He admits though, he's still searching for the ultimate web-based organizational tool, which "sings" perfectly with the mobile PIM application. Dusan used to run SymbianWatch.com which later became part of IntoMobile. He lives in Serbia, South-East Europe, from where he edits the site on a daily basis.
