Buying A New Phone? Warning

[astral]

My friend has been using an I-Mate with the Windows mobile OS.

He has upgraded to a new model also with the Windows mobile OS and asked me to transfer his list of contacts.

I loaded MS Active Sync and requested it to sync the contacts to my PC.

No warning messages and I could see his photos on my hard disk, plus some other files. OK I thought.

I connected the new phone.

A new version of Active Sync was needed, but the disk was supplied. Fair enough.

Transfer the contacts to the new phone.... No

MS Outlook needed. Trial version supplied and loaded.

Transfer contacts from old phone to Outlook.

Messages implied all is well.

Transfer to New Phone. No contacts available..............

Open Outlook. No contacts stored..... What the <deleted>

Don't they want us to transfer data from one phone to another??

Why make it so difficult.

MS Outlook is not a real option, not at +$100 a pop.

Now, I use Nokia and the PC suite is provided FREE.

I do back up my phone contents to my PC, easily.

I have yet to try upgrading to a new Nokia phone, but I will be soon.............

Yes I know there are options to back up to memory card, provided the new phone

takes the same size card.......... Not the case for my friend.

He ended up saving phone numbers, ONE BY ONE to the SIM card.

No bulk save available, and other contact info lost as it is not suppored by the SIM.

[nikster]

I remember from my old Nokia phones that there was a special feature for transferring contact from Nokia -> Nokia, they did it for me in the Nokia store.

The iPhone just syncs with the computer's address book of course, that takes just a few seconds

Nokia PC Suite is a horrible, horrible program, i hope they improved it since I last tried it. My first experience with it was trying to sync some music to my phone - it took about 30 minutes, then crashed halfway through. Don't expect too much from it Syncing with Mac is actually easier because Nokia doesn't "offer" their PC suite so most phones are supported by the OS and also sync to the address book. Thats how I got my contacts from the Nokia to the iPhone.

[Gary A]

Nokia offers updates TOO often to suit me but I always download the update. The last two versions work great.

I agree that older versions had a lot of problems. Maybe they hired a programmer who finally knows what he is doing.

I have changed phones many times and was always able to copy from phone to phone with the SIM card regardless of what king of phone.

Edited June 26, 2008 by Gary A

[Ken]

Nokia offers updates TOO often to suit me but I always download the update. The last two versions work great.

I agree that older versions had a lot of problems. Maybe they hired a programmer who finally knows what he is doing.

I have changed phones many times and was always able to copy from phone to phone with the SIM card regardless of what king of phone.

Gary, wondering how you do that? I just bought my first Nokia (6300) and all my contacts are on the SIM card. In using the Nokia PC Suite (CD supplied version 6.83.14.1), I cannot see any of these contacts. If I transfer a contact to the phone memory using the phone, yes can see it, but what a pain....one by one. I tried some Google search on my "problem", but so far haven't really come up with anything.

[Gary A]

Nokia offers updates TOO often to suit me but I always download the update. The last two versions work great.

I agree that older versions had a lot of problems. Maybe they hired a programmer who finally knows what he is doing.

I have changed phones many times and was always able to copy from phone to phone with the SIM card regardless of what king of phone.

Gary, wondering how you do that? I just bought my first Nokia (6300) and all my contacts are on the SIM card. In using the Nokia PC Suite (CD supplied version 6.83.14.1), I cannot see any of these contacts. If I transfer a contact to the phone memory using the phone, yes can see it, but what a pain....one by one. I tried some Google search on my "problem", but so far haven't really come up with anything.

My Nokia Suite is 6.86.9.3. That is the latest version. I am able to copy and paste from the computer to the phone and from phone to the computer. I can open any file on the phone with the computer and can easily do backups, add or delete files. It also talks to Outlook Express but I don't use that at all.

With just the phone, I can open contacts, then options and copy back and forth from the SIM card to the phone memory.

I also have a Samsung phone that I copied my contacts to the phone memory from the AIS SIM out of my Nokia.

[astral]

Keeping full contact info on the SIM is not an option, only the phone numbers.....

The iPhone just syncs with the computer's address book of course, that takes just a few seconds

Which address book??

There is no standard address book on PC's......

In my case it was $100's worth of MS Outlook we did not really want.

[Gary A]

Keeping full contact info on the SIM is not an option, only the phone numbers.....

The iPhone just syncs with the computer's address book of course, that takes just a few seconds

Which address book??

There is no standard address book on PC's......

In my case it was $100's worth of MS Outlook we did not really want.

I was curious about Outlook Express so I started playing with the synchronization option in Nokia Suite. I found I was able to use Outlook Express as well as the Windows Address book and synchronize either with the phone.