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Re: [OM] iPhone et al

Subject: Re: [OM] iPhone et al
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 16:06:47 -0700
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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