Depending on what phone you've got, backing up your contacts, messages and pictures can either be really easy or a complete nightmare. Hopefully, you've got a phone that's relatively straightforward, ...

As high-tech and advanced as all our modern mobile devices are, there's no way of getting around basic user errors. Luckily, the makers of your mobile devices kept such errors in mind. That is why we ...

A core part of moving phones is taking your contacts with you. Before Google was backing up contacts, the only contacts to follow you to a new phone were whatever you could store on your SIM. Today, a ...

Your contacts list is likely a huge mess, especially if you’ve been adding to the same list since your first cell phone. People you don’t talk to anymore, duplicate numbers, unclear names, and other ...

If you are changing smartphones — especially when transferring from one major platform to the other — it’s critical to preserve your contacts. Luckily, transferring your contacts to your new device is ...

So I've now got an HTC Incredible S, on ICS, coming from an iPhone 3GS that was starting to show its age. I have set up my own carddav/contacts server, my own ical server and my own imap server. I am ...

This article was taken from the January 2014 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by ...