Since you're rocking Android already it should be trivial; Set you phone to sync up with a Google account, that's all your contacts backed up. As you mentioned you have easy USB drag and drop for media files like pictures so that the tangibles safe. Finally I have a free app, SMS Backup & Restore (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.riteshsahu.SMSBackupRestore&hl=en) which dumps the SMS database out as an XML file on your memory card so again, its easy drag and drop backup. There is also SMS Backup+ which backs them up to your Google account and stores them as mail threads which is cool (but I have a massive SMS inbox (10k~ messages) and it's too slow for that, but free!). I would recommend if you have rooted your device (I did, but having just received my phone back from sending it away for repairs, those buggers re-flashed it and restored it to S-ON!) I would recommend Titanium Backup. It backs up apps and settings and all sorts of stuff to your memory card, and again, free! https://market.android.com/details?id=com.keramidas.TitaniumBackup&feature=s... HTH. P.s. Sorry Steve! -- James. http://www.jamesbensley.co.cc/