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Palm Backup Beta

Thu Apr 19, 2007 - 10:20 AM EDT - By Jay Gross

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> Name Palm Backup Beta
> Company Palm, Inc
> Fact Sheet & User Opinions
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Conclusion

Palm’s Backup Beta offers a simple, automatic solution to keeping your personal information recoverable in case of disaster(s) by making an over-the-air, encrypted copy of the data to Palm’s servers. It doesn’t back up everything in the Treo, but stores enough of the Treo’s essentials to get you running again, in case of worst-case scenarios. What the service costs when it exits beta will determine whether it’s worth investing in, but for now it’s free.




Criteria 

Rating

Design 4
Features 2
Usability 3
Cost/Benefit 5
Overall
(not an average)
Pros
  • Automatic backups that you do not have to remember to perform
  • Off-site storage is restorable from any place you can get a data connection
  • Nearly seamless interface
  • Simple, dedicated, and unobtrusive
  • Cons
  • User agreement from Disclaimer City
  • Unknown what the service will cost when out of beta
  • Calendar and Contacts are not backed up for certain Versamail and Microsoft Exchange Active Sync users, even if the EAS account is deleted.


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