Lost Contacts and without a MobileMe account..

Hi, Just yesterday I've lost all my contacts suddenly on my iphone 3GS. I read for many ways to recover it, it all say to recover them from a MobileMe Mail account, but I do not have a mobileme account and i've not synced my phone to my itunes for backup before. Is there any way for me to recover my contacts? In my Mails, Contacts and Calender settings, i'm only connected to my hotmail. Will there still be stored backup somewhere on the server or something? Because the contacts just disappeared and have yet to return. Please Help!

She obviously has a MobileMe account or there would be no MobileMe account to disable on her iPhone. And if her contacts are now gone, this means she was syncing contacts over the air on her iPhone with her MobileMe online address book. When turning contacts off for over the air syncing on the iPhone and when deleting or disabling the account on the iPhone, contacts synced over the air go with it or are removed from the iPhone.
Her contacts should be available with her MobileMe online address book unless she signed up for a MobileMe trial account for 60 days and didn't purchase the account allowing it to expire.
Regardless, her contacts should be available on her computer as well. If the contacts are available in an address book app that is supported for syncing contacts with the iPhone, she can sync contacts direct with the supported address book app on her computer via the iTunes sync process.

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