This reporter's fascination with all things iPhone (News - Alert) continues unabated: Now backing up your iPhone address books just got a lot easier.

GemaltoO3SIS, a Gemalto company, is a mobile software tools vendor. The O3SIS SyncML Client allows iPhone users to protect their address book through simple back-up and synchronization with the Deutsche Telekom (News - Alert) address book on the O3SIS’ secured server. 

"Once their data has been stored," Gemalto officials say, subscribers can access it through a Web interface and manage all their contact details. Deutsche Telekom subscribers will be first to get this new service through the operator’s existing Web portal and O3SIS’ tool.

If you're like some mobile users, your address book has become one of your essential features. If you're like these folks Gemato officials are obviously targeting, your address has "great emotional value" to you, as the repository of "priceless information about family, friends and professional as well as social networks."

Clearly, if you'd be devastated and not merely cheesed off by the loss or theft of your iPhone, if enough of your social life is stored on your iPhone that you'd be socially crippled, then my friend, you'd better look into some sort of backup.

“We are proud to make iPhone contact management available to Deutsche Telekom subscribers through a one-click application,” says Dirk Dörre, O3SIS CEO.  , a vendor of digital security products, has announced the availability of O3SIS’ address book management application on the AppStore. 

Gemalto (News - Alert) had 2008 annual revenues of €1.68 billion, and 10,000 employees operating out of 75 offices, research and service centers in 40 countries.

Earlier this month, TMCnet reported that Gemalto is delivering national ID cards to Kuwait as part of the government program commissioned by the country's Public Authority For Civil Information.