How to Transfer Contacts from an old Phone to an iPhone 4G

One of the greatest problems that you're going to encounter when you get a new phone whether it's switching carriers or upgrading from your previous phone is switching your contacts over. It can be quite annoying or time consuming if you have to manually do it. Thankfully, the iPhone 4G makes it rather easy to switch your contacts over and keep them backed up from another phone.

One method that you may use is to sync your phone up with iTunes. However, this only works if you have your contacts in another location such as a Yahoo! Address book with a mac or Windows, Address Book on mac, or in Outlook if you have Windows. It takes a bit more to transfer your contacts over from another phone but it is possible if you complete a few steps. There are three different methods you can use to transfer.

First, visit an AT&T store. They can get the contacts copied directly from your SIM card to a USB thumb drive which you want to bring with you to the store. Alternatively, buy one directly from them. The PBB format is a bit complicating though because Outlook and Address Book can't read it. You can go to http://www.sixpak.org/pbbreader/ to switch them to .csv format. It can then be imported into the address book by going directly to the Yahoo! Address book.

Visit Yahoo, click options and then mail options and finally contact options then the import/export feature. Browse to the .csv and import it. Sync this to your iPhone 4G by using iTunes and check the option to sync the Yahoo Address book. A mac requires that you use Address Book importer to get the .csv into it and sync through iTunes just like you would on Windows.

Another option is to purchase a mobile handset manager. It costs $40 and will import contacts directly to outlook from your phone. Use iTunes to sync your phone with the address book. It is available in USB and Bluetooth formats depending on what your phone can support.

If you're a mac user and happen to use any of the following; Blackberry, Windows Mobile, or a Palm you could use Missing Sync to transfer your contacts from one phone to the iPhone 4G. The software is approximately $40 as well and takes the data from your old phone and then converts it to a format which is compatible with the iPhone 4G. This application is available in multiple languages including French, German, and English.

Your very last option which works but is incredibly tedious is to transfer your contacts over manually one by one. This can work if you don't have too many but if you have hundreds this could potentially take hours. Once you have them in your iPhone you can sync them up to another address book. This will allow you to never have to deal with the problem of transferring your contacts again as long as you don't switch to another phone.

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