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Is there an easy way to transfer contacts from a Sony to an Nokia given that the sim only holds 200 numbers and there are nearly 400 to be transferred? The problem with using the sim is that I can copy to it from the Sony (and then transfer) but not delete what I'm copying, thus the numbers on the old phone are not being reduced. Repeating this process just copies what it did originally.

Some of the fancier phones in the past few years have been able to batch transfer details via bluetooth, worth seeing if you have that option if both phones equipped.


Depending on how old it is you should be able to use the support software that came with the phone (or download it) to pull all the contacts, sms, other content onto your PC and then use your Nokia's software to push the contacts (in form of vcfs probably) up to your new phone.


I just used MyPhoneExplorer to backup the txts and contacts from an old W800i.


Shouldn't be too difficult to shuffle your details off one and onto the other.

Old stylee phones allow you to do this via the sim card, usually in batches if you have alot of numbers. Just transfer your numbers onto the sim card then put the sim in in the new phone and transfer from the sim to the phone and repeat until everything has been shifted.


You might see some differences in formatting of written information (names being shortened)if you are transferring between makes of phone.

Trouble is with the oldee is that you can copy to sim but don't appear to be able to transfer to sim. Means you could end up copying the same numbers each time and transferring them ad infinitum.There must be a way out of this cycle.

I recently has a bit of a 'mare with a malfunctioning HTC. Having transferred my numbers from old style Nokia to the HTC phone memory, I then discovered that the HTC couldnt read any SD memory card installed. Without that I couldnt transfer anything off the HTC, not even onto the SIM card.


In the end I had to manually type all of my numbers into Outlook, but at least I could synch them back on to my new HTC afterwards.


It was a pain but at least I was able to weed out the many old redundant numbers.

Does your phone's pc software have an export contacts function. Usually it allows to a csv file or somesuch.


I used the csv file to import into google contacts and then synced my new android phone to google contacts.


Bing, took about 2 minutes end-to-end.

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