Back up your mobile contacts for free. Plus store photos & videos online

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What's the deal?

Website Mobyko allows you to back-up your mobile phone numbers from anywhere. Currently it's offering all MoneySavers a premium account for a year, which usually costs £24.99 a year, for free. So if you lose your mobile or get a new one you can access and restore your contacts online at any time from anywhere. After a year you'll be asked if you want to continue the subscription and asked to pay £24.99 (or whatever the cost is at the time).

Of course, if you've a cable and can simply synch your phone with your PC that's easier and safer. Though the advantage of this system is you can do it anywhere anytime.

What's included

The standard free deal allows you to back-up, the free premium account also adds:

• 100 free texts from any PC to a mobile
• Extra Free storage space for pictures and videos from your phone. To do this though you'll need to send a MMS message to store your pictures, and that will be charged at your usual rate by your network provider

You also get a free daily news service and a 'dedicated helpline'.

These are of course just added extras, and frankly whether they're worth the £24.99 if you had to pay for them is highly debatable. Then again for free, it's a nice little extra.

How to get the free deal

Simply go to the Mobyko site and enter the promotional code MSE in the box underneath the sign up box.

There is no commercial relationship whatsoever between this site and Mobyko, it just knew that MoneySavers can't resist a freebie and Martin can't resist telling them about it.

What about existing users?

If you're already a Mobyko user you should be able to upgrade your account to the premium one for free as well. Simply login, go to 'My Account' on the left hand side and click on Upgrade my account to premium. Simply enter the code and you should get an email confirming that you've been upgraded.

How to save your contacts

Simply go to Mobyko and click on the sign up box (bottom left). Enter your details followed by your mobile number and the network you are on. You'll be sent a 4 digit pin number to use later.

Select your phone handset type and it will then take you through a step-by-step process of how to save your contacts from your particular handset.

Are there any other charges.

As there is a data call from your mobile to get the numbers across; this has to be paid for and you need to check your network's charges (though don't worry, it's likely to be in low pence not pounds).

Cashback Ontop Is Possible

It's also possible that by signing up for this via a cashback site, you can get cashback ontop too. Quidco offers £2 for people signing up and you will get this as well as using the code to bag your free account. You can also get £1 from Wepromiseto and linemypocket. If you're unfamiliar with cashback sites read the top cashback sites article.


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Spinner

Sounds good. Don't forget Quidco offer £2 cashback on registrations using a voucher code.

hvaghela

Also £1 cashback with rpoints and linemypockets.

orvilleduck

I've backed up my contacts a couple of times using Mobyko and it's cost me about £6 each time. Admittedly I do have quite a few (150ish) contacts on there as I run a cricket team, but I find it's far easier and cheaper to sync my phone with Outlook and backup my Outlook contacts on inbox.com or another PC.

It's a great service though - and hopefully it'll spell the end to all the "i've lost my phone" groups on Facebook.

--Tony--

orvilleduck wrote: »

I've backed up my contacts a couple of times using Mobyko and it's cost me about £6 each time.

£12 to backup and restore, forget that a £1 sim copier is the moneysavers option!

Sid_Harper

Presuming here that the costs people are talking about are down to mobile data tariffs. But many people DO have unlimited web tariffs, so it doesn't cost.

emmajg

I've used mobyko for about 2 months before it was advertised here, it's free for me to sync but I tried to upgrade to the premium account but mse doesn't work it must be new people only.
i also use vodafones back service which is free atm

chivas

I use a pc application called My Phone Explorer to back my phone up - it is the best one I've found (I use a Sony Ericsson - I'm not sure if it works for other brands).

It quickly and easily lets you back up contacts/ messages/ call lists/ images/ music etc.

http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/MyPhoneExplorer-Download-26177.html

Kilty_2

o2 provide a service like this for FREE to both their PAYG and contract customers - it's called Bluebook.

lightbulb

Is this mobyko a 'for life' offer or a year of service only?

Mobyko_Support

orvilleduck wrote: »

I've backed up my contacts a couple of times using Mobyko and it's cost me about £6 each time. Admittedly I do have quite a few (150ish) contacts on there as I run a cricket team, but I find it's far easier and cheaper to sync my phone with Outlook and backup my Outlook contacts on inbox.com or another PC.

It's a great service though - and hopefully it'll spell the end to all the "i've lost my phone" groups on Facebook.

Hi to all,

Thanks for the great response we have had from MSE.

Regarding the cost of a backup it will vary according to the data charges that you incur on your network. The only time any significant data is sent is during the initial backup when all the contacts are sent over to us.
Subsequent backups only update what is already present so far less data is sent.
Orvilleduck, the cost of backing up that many contacts should not be that expensive, it should be in pence. If you would like to enquire about this cost then please drop me an email at support at mobyko.com and I will look into it.

To emmajg, you should now find that existing account holders can upgrade their account using the MSE promo code.

thanks,
James