I know I’m not alone when I say, “I’ve lost my cell phone before, and with it? All of my contacts.” Of course that was before I owned a Smart Phone which is now synchronized to damn near every portable device I own, and backed up to a server, then offloaded to offsite storage as well just in case - you never know… but Mobyko is a service for you not-so-geeks out there that need the safety and security of being able to throw your cell phone from the car when it fails to connect over and over again, even when you’re in a service area.
That’s right, an online place to offload your contacts and store them safely - securely, and in Web 2.0 style, you can manage and weirdly enough, share your contacts with others? [edit - see comment]… Ok, not share, thank God, that would be just odd - but, I can see how a feature like that could be convenient for sending numbers to others, but that’s what SMS is for, so good call Mobyko on protecting the privacy of others [/edit]. The set up requires a little input on your behalf, things like your carrier, country, phone type… but it’s nothing too difficult to understand if you just fill in the blanks, and choose the right stuff.
I’m a fan of being forgetful, so this site holds some value to it - even if I do have my contacts in a gazillion places already… the “what if” of being me is around, and the more insurance the better.













Hi, thanks very much for the write up on your blog. Just to let your readers know, we take privacy extremely seriously and therefore don’t offer a facility where members can share their contacts with others, Mobykoers can, however, share content they have uploaded from their phones such as pictures and videos. Best wishes. Zoe @ The Mobyko Team
Comment by Zoe Rus — November 1, 2007 @ 2:25 am
Zoe: Awesome! I’ll update the post with an edit. Looking back, I have no idea where the hell I even got that from… So much for being a journalist, but thank god my reader quantity isn’t astronomical… yet.
Comment by nrek — November 1, 2007 @ 8:03 am