How many times have you changed phones (to your new Nokia E71) and wrote down your contacts in order to manually enter them into your new phone? Or, like me, copied all your contacts to your sim card only to find that they have all mysteriously disappeared? Here I will describe the various ways to transfer contact information to your new E71.
1. The SIM Card
This is the easiest and most familar method for people. As long as you store your contact data on the memory in the SIM card, all you have to do is slot the SIM into your new E71 and you’re done. However, the SIM card is an outdated piece of technology and the amount of memory on it is usually limited to 250 contacts. It is possible, after inserting the SIM card into your new E71, to then copy those contacts to the phone memory, and then delete those in the SIM card so that it can be used again as a ‘vehicle’ to transfer more contacts from your old phone. This is a quite troublesome and you need to go about it in an organized fashion. You could also experience loss of the information (as I did) if the copying is not done correctly.
Advantages: Ultimate cross-device compatibility
Disadvantages: Limited capacity
2. Bluetooth Business Cards
Your contacts can be transferred in bulk via Bluetooth business cards. If both your phones can be switched on at the same time, (if you have a spare SIM card, or your phones allow you to switch them on without a SIM card inserted such as the E71) you can pair the two devices up via Bluetooth and transfer the contacts that way. The only trouble to this method is that you receive each contact in your new E71 individually, meaning that each contact will have to be saved to the phone book. Repeating this task hundreds of times is not a particularly enticing one.
Advantages: Fast, easy to send, wide compatibility between phones.
Disadvantages: Painstaking to save a large numbers of contacts.
3. Cross Device Synchronisation
If both your phones are compatible with each other, this is an effective and easy way to transfer data. Unfortunately even two different Nokia devices might not be compatible with each other.
Advantages: Easy to use and almost entirely automatic
Disadvantages: Not a reliable cross-platform method
4. Online Synchronisation
Synchronisation services such as ovi.com allow you to backup and store your contacts, mail, schedule and more on their servers for easy access anytime and anywhere. I find that although I have a local backup easily available on my PC, the online service gives me the peace of mind and assurance of knowing that if anything happens to my phone and or PC, my data will still be safe in an independent server.
Avantages: Independent storage for backup from anywhere and at anytime.
Disadvantages: Your phone needs to have internet access in order to perform a backup.
5. PC Synchronisation
The Nokia PC Suite, N-Series PC Sutie or Ovi Suite can synchronise your personal data with the programs on your PC such as Outlook, Vista Contacts, Lotus Notes etc. This will then allow you to transfer that data onto your new device.
Advantages: Relatively easy to set up, and backups can be performed regularly.
Disadvantages: Synchronisation software not always reliable, and data availability depends on the functioning of the PC.
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