Losing your phone: the fear

So here's the deal: just like everyone expected and feared it would happen with
PDAs in the late 90s, people, what with their portable information cataloguing gadgets (in this case, cellphones) have finally obtained—yes, obtained—the privelege of not needing to worry about remembering some otherwise banal data (in this case, telephone numbers). And then comes the end-user fear. Apparently one in three women surveyed by Intervoice believe if they lost their phones—their address books, in all reality—that they'd lose contact with people entirely. Okay, look, we're not even going to touch the broad myriad of ways to backup your phone's contents, or to ensure you don't lose your phone—we're just going to once more squarely
place blame on the carriers, who we believe should not only be there to provide the proper systems to backup unassuming users' non-smartphone/sync-capable devices (which would be pretty easy for them, trust us), but to at least raise awareness about the whole matter, and provide official recommendations. Then again, if you actually believe that once you've lost your phone that your social life ends, well,
just ask anyone; we've all lost a phone, and we're all still kickin' it for real. We can definitely say that the only thing truly scary about losing your phone is having to buy a new one without carrier subsidy—good god!