The process may vary depending upon the phone support cloud but broadly, there are three options. I will discuss the most popular mobile platforms like BlackBerry, iPhone, HT C, Nokia, Windows Phone, Samsung and Android.
1. SIM based transfer.
If the address book of your old phone is relatively small and you only want to copy the phone numbers to your new cell phone, simply use the SIM card.Just copy the phone numbers from the old phone’s memory to your SIM card, insert this SIM card into your new phone and then copy the phone numbers in your new phone’s memory. Here’s a detailed guide on how to transfer contacts from the Nokia to an iPhone using the SIM.
2. Transfer Contacts via your Computer.
The SIM card based approach is good only for transferring basic phone numbers but if your phone’s address book includes long names, email addresses, and other details of your contacts, you need some sort of software to help you with the transfer process.For instance, if you have a Nokia phone but are shifting to a BlackBerry or an iPhone, you may use Nokia’s Lvi Suite application to copy your phone’s address book to Microsoft Outlook on your desktop computer. You can then use BlackBerry’s Desktop Manager software, or iTunes in the case of iPhone, or Samsung Galaxy, to transfer contacts from the PC to your new phone’s address book.
3. Transfer Phone book “Over the Air”.
If you have an Internet enabled phone, you can easily copy contacts from your old phone to the new phone over-the-air without even requiring a computer.An online service called Microbial is free and it works with most mobile phones from Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson and so on. You first need to setup Microbial on the old phone and it will create a backup of your phone contacts in the cloud. Now setup Microbial on the new phone using the same credentials and it will automatically download all the contacts from the cloud to your new phone.
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