Iphone would not back up in itunes. "restored" it and now all my contacts are gone...can I get them back?

while trying to update my version, itunes kept timing out.  I successfully updated another phone w/o a problem.  After 8 hours of attempting and even trying 2 different computers, I decided to "restore"!  My bad!!! Was so frustrated by then I just did it.  Now, phone is as if I took it out of the box!  Contacts are gone, calendar entries gone etc.  Is there any way to get back that info?  I checked in outlook, but it appears that none of my back-ups ever "took". Outlook in empty!

The only way you can get back some info is to restore your phone from the most recent backup.  Naturally, any data added to the phone since that last backup and current, will be gone.

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