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Help! How do i transfer contacts from my Sony to my Nokia???

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Old 08-11-2009, 9:44 PM   #1
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Help! How do i transfer contacts from my Sony to my Nokia???

Hi, and thanks for looking.

I've just bought a brand new Nokia 5530 today. Unfortunately 7 hours later i still can't use it as I've spent all afternoon trying to export / back-up my Sony Ericsson, and import the contacts over to the Nokia 5530.

All i've managed to do so far is sync my Sony with Windows Vista Contacts. The Nokia Ovi Suite software is terrible, and i can't find a way of syncronising the phone with Windows Contacts.

I've therefore tried to get my contact details into MS Outlook 2007. The Sony Suite doesn't appear to support exporting contacts into that, so i've tried getting my Windows Contacts into MS Outlook, but i can't find a way to do that either.

Is there any way i can get my contacts over. I'm getting pretty desperate now, and don't want to have to enter them all manually.

Also, is the Nokia Ovi Suite the only application i can use with my 5530, as so far it seems to be an awful piece of software.

Thanks!

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Old 09-11-2009, 3:23 AM   #2
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Re: Help! How do i transfer contacts from my Sony to my Nokia???

Sorry to hear about your problems monkey butler. I recently changed phones from a Sony Ericsson K800 to a Nokia N82 and iirc I synchronized my Sony with Outlook (2002 in my case) using SE Suite then used the Nokia Suite to do the same with the N82.

Though maybe those Suites haven't yet been made fully Vista compatible yet, in which case you could always try the old fashioned method of copying the contacts from old phone onto SIM card then inserting SIM into new phone and copying them into the new phone' Contacts.

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Old 09-11-2009, 4:07 PM   #3
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Re: Help! How do i transfer contacts from my Sony to my Nokia???

Just stick your sim in your new phone...
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Re: Help! How do i transfer contacts from my Sony to my Nokia???

If your on o2 you can use bluebook to transfer your numbers as long as both phones are supported.
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Re: Help! How do i transfer contacts from my Sony to my Nokia???

Can't you just send them over by Bluetooth?
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Old 11-11-2009, 6:16 PM   #6
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Re: Help! How do i transfer contacts from my Sony to my Nokia???

Sorted!

I exported all of my Sony contacts to Windows Vista Contacts (no option to export to Outlook on the Sony PC Suite).

I then ran the Nokia Ovi software (which is awful!). Ran a sync which said it synced 1 item, a test contact on my phone. There were no actual options in the application to sync contacts (weird).

Anyway, although it told me that it had only synced 1 item, the test contact, when i checked the phone later it had brought all of the contacts over, just not told me in the Ovi suite.
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