| Just FYI - Verizon has a feature that's free if you do paperless billing.  It synchs with your phone daily (or however often you make the setting) and updates your contacts to a website.  You can add delete from your phone or on the website (easier to type).  That way you always have a recent backup of what on your phone.  And you can go online and make a hard paper printout too which is handy just in case.
 Obviously this isn't going to help you now - and I don't know if Sprint has something similar.
 
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