On the way to work this morning my iPhone just deleted all my contacts.

I was using it the next this i know all my numbers had been deleted and my favourite contacts page just has the number as do all my texts.
What's happened? Why has this happened?
I can't just back it up because it's an old phone im using until i can afford to get my iphone4 fixed as the thing just stopped working one day aswell and wanted restoring which would be great had it been backed up in 6 months, which it had not...This was due to my main computer being in storage from a house move.
Quite fed up of 'just restore it' they shouldnt really just fail sporadically and frequently in the first place...
Thank you if anyone knows anyway of bringing them back or explaining that would be great.

All contacts on your iPhone should be available in an address book app on your computer - an address book app that is supported for syncing contacts with your iPhone. Not a good idea to depend on an iPhone or any cell phone alone for your contscts, which can be lost or stolen or have a software problem with all contacts randomly being deleted. First I've heard of this.

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