One caveat: If you store the backup's memory card in your phone and you then lose the phone, the backup is useless. Unfortunately memory card backups never seem to work as reliably as computer-based ones, so the recommended method remains using your PC, but if the memory card method could be improved then it may become a very viable alternative that would let you back up data wherever you are.

S60 phones (and PDAs before them) have long offered the alternative of backing up the phone's data to a memory card, and modern memory cards have more than enough space to do this. One of PC Suite's most useful features is being able to back up your phone's contents so that if the phone has to be reformatted for some reason, or if you have to move data to a new phone, you have all the info you need safely stored on your computer.Ĭan the computer be replaced? - Well, sort of, and in theory it already has been. (We've deliberately left a few functions out as it didn't really make much sense to include them: for example, you probably wouldn't want to connect a PC to the internet without a PC.) That's why applications like Nokia PC Suite were written, to ease the task of transferring data back and forth between phone and computer.Ĭould this end? Could we see in a situation where S60 smartphones no longer require PCs at all? Let's go through PC Suite's main functions one by one to see how things stand.

How S60 is declaring independence from PC Suite (and from computers in general)Įver since phones with advanced multimedia capabilities began to appear on the market, there's been a general assumption that device owners would use them in tandem with their home computers, probably Windows-based PCs.

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