Mobile backup gets super-trendy

This week Mobile Backup and Android gets all the hype,

• WaveSecure is one of the 3 winners of the Android challenge 2 with its application enabling remote location, lock, backup and wipe of your droid phone
• SugarSync introduces new APIs and an Android application to “sync folders between the SD card on your Android phone and your computers”

So why all the hype ? Answer is quite simple, your mobile is the placeholder of your mobile digital life, and your digital life having massively gone mobile since the iPhone shook up the market, that means a lot. Pictures, music, videos, contacts, calendars, emails, all those personal stuff on a very mobile platform, if you were to loose your device you might loose a lot of irreplaceable data and expose your life to third parties finding your phone. Being able to backup, lock, wipe and restore your phone has definitely a lot of value !