It’s often that we first see services and features tested in one of a number of countries/regions before being made available worldwide. We just noticed that Yahoo India is now providing a feature* that allows registered users (free) to backup material sent via SMS to their Yahoo Mail account.

In a nutshell, registered users simply can forward any/all text messages to a specific shortcode and then have the content stored permanently in their Yahoo Mail account.

From the FAQ:

SMS Backup is a service for storing a virtually unlimited number of SMS (text) messages online. If you’re a mobile user, you can back up your text messages and retrieve them later in Yahoo! Mail. The messages are stored in a folder ‘SMS Backup’ created specifically for your backed-up SMS messages.

Can I put the backed-up SMS message on my mobile phone?
Not at this time. After you back up a message, you can’t download it to your mobile phone. We are investing ways to include this feature in future versions of SMS Backup.

Can I back up picture messages and MMS messages?
Not at this time. Only SMS messages can be backed up.

We will be on the lookout to see if SMS Backup becomes available in other parts of the world.

Source: Yahoo

* The Yahoo India SMS Backup service first launched in the Fall of 2006.

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