This might cheer you up if it was a T-Mobile phone. This may only be true on the sidekick 2s. Last year at Mardi-Gras my sidekick 2 was stolen SIM card and all. I ordered a new one, and put the new SIM card in. Maybe 12 hours or so after activation. All my numbers, and pictures stored on the SIM card were on the new sidekick. It seems to me like T-Mobile dose network backups of the SIM card data. Maybe other carriers do it as well. I could be wrong about where the data is stored, but as far as I know the pictures and numbers are stored on the SIM card.
