Microsoft Phone Data Manager (beta) is an application that is designed to take away the worry of losing data - specifically contacts, music, pictures and videos - from your phone. It does that by synchronizing your phone contacts with the Windows Live Contacts store in the cloud and by backing up your media files to your local computer. In order for you to synchronize contacts with Windows Live Contacts, you will need to have a Windows Live ID. For contacts synchronization, your phone needs to support the SyncML standard, and for file download it needs to support OBEX. In some select phones that do not support SyncML, we are able to utilize the AT command set to provide a limited contact sync functionality. Microsoft Phone Data Manager (beta) has currently been tested against a set of about 150 phones, and Microsoft is constantly testing with newer phones: Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Samsung, Motorola, HTC,...