Microsoft has announced that it will release a new service that synchronizes information on a user’s cell phone. Contacts, text messages and photos will all be available to be managed at a password-protected Microsoft Web site. By subscribing to the service, called My Phone, cell phone users will no have complete data storage and back-up online, so that if the phone is lost or destroyed all the cell phone data can be retrieved and downloaded to a new phone. Subscribers who use the My Phone service could also post information on the My Phone Web site that will then appear on their cell phone.

The Microsoft My Phone service will be free, but will only work on phones that run Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6 operating system. Microsoft is offering up to 200 megabytes of free storage on the My Phone site. Full details will be released at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, which will start Feb. 16.

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