Help backing up contacts

[Guest jonjay]

Hi. I have recently bought a new laptop, and it will not have outlook on it. My old one had a very old version of outlook that I used with activesync, which worked for backing up contacts. However, I have absolutely no idea where that disc is and I have no intention of buying outlook again, when windows mail in Vista is perfectly good enough for my email requirements.

The problem is though, as far as I can see, without Outlook there is no way of backing up contacts on the Omnia in Vista. The phone crashed not long back and if it did it again now, I would lose all of my contacts as they are not saved anywhere else.

Surely there must be an alternative to having to buy Outlook?

Any suggestions greatly appreciated.

[Guest TheDrizzle]

Try "PIM Backup". It runs on your phone and will backup your contacts, call log, calendar, texts, email, etc and its totally free:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299705

Also Microsoft "MyPhone" can store your contacts in the cloud, but its a WM6.5 app. I think there is a cab for it around somwhere in the ROM sub-forums.

[Guest rickhamilton620]

Try "PIM Backup". It runs on your phone and will backup your contacts, call log, calendar, texts, email, etc and its totally free:

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=299705

Also Microsoft "MyPhone" can store your contacts in the cloud, but its a WM6.5 app. I think there is a cab for it around somwhere in the ROM sub-forums.

I used MyPhone with 6.1. Works just fine! :)

[Guest ZoXoR]

You can also try Google Sync (this uses Active Sync)

it's free. You can find more information on http://www.google.com/mobile/products/sync.html#p=default