Microsoft has announced a new cloud service for your phone (assuming it is a MSFT based phone) which will allow you to back up all of your phone stuff on to the cloud. As the Beta has been released it offers about 200 MB of space to back up all your phone information which can be accessed either from your phone or on any PC. That is not a bad concept but a bit more limited than Mobile Me - the Apple service with broader coverage.
Mobile Me allows back up of address contacts and photos but also bookmarks and email and then synchs them ingeniously to all of your devices that use those services. So for example, if you have a laptop, a smart phone and a desktop machine - all of those things can be backed up and will be in constant synch - plus you can access them from the web.
The new MSFT service is free at this time and Mobile Me has a fee attached. In the time I have been using Mobile Me they have held the price constant but have increased (doubled) the capacity. So at my price range I have 40 gigs of storage available anywhere, any time. The MSFT solution seems to think of technology in silos. The Mobile Me thinks of technology as a set of tools which should be usable in any venue.
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