On 10/26/2010 1:32 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I want to use BitPim to transfer and save my contacts list.
Unnecessary. Verizon has a free service to do that. You activate it, your phone
uploads the contact list, then keeps it
updated as you wander through life. You can access and edit it on their web
site, which is MUCH faster and easier* than
on the phone itself when the list needs cleaning and organizing. Then send it
back down to the phone.
If you are wondering why they would be so magnanimous, it's for their own
benefit. With AT&T, T-Mobile, European and
other GSM phones, you simply switch your SIM card when you buy a new phone.
With phones like you and I have, you can't
do that. Verizon developed this process so their salespeople and/or customers
could quickly transfer their contact lists
from old to replacement phones.
The natural extension was to use it for backup as well. So when you have lost
or broken your phone, they can download
your data into the new one.
I even used it to sync my contact list with Carol's. They don't say it can do
that, but I found a way. Slightly kludgy,
but it worked. :-)
Moose
* At least for those of us who are not adept at entering text on our phones.
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