A BlackBerry contact backup application for Verizon subscribers will be arriving on March 9, according to some leaked training documents. What this Backup Assistant will do is store your contacts up in the cloud, occasionally check to see if you’ve added, changed, or removed entries, update the stored database as necessary, and when you need those contacts on a new handset, pull all the latest information into your blank address book. All of the info that’s backed up can be accessed and edited online via web portal, if you need to do any fine tuning or importing through another service.
The new BlackBerry preloaded application is by FusionOne, whose service works with anyone rocking a My Verizon account, and is verified using each BlackBerry’s signature PIN number. This is certainly cool, but I’ve already been evaporating my contacts to the cloud thanks to the Google Sync for Mobile application, and RIM themselves have been doing some remote back-up using PIN numbers with BlackBerry Messenger 5.0. Still, anyone switching handsets but staying with Verizon might not have either of those options available to them, depending on the phones in question.
You can get more information on Verizon’s Backup Assistant over here, or just hold out for a little over a week until Backup Assistant is pushed out to your BlackBerry.
[via BerryScoop]