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Lol, never had that problem with Motorola! I've had three phones so far across two different sims and never had dificulty. You load the software (Works in XP, Vista, 7 no problem) and then connect the phone using either:
-USB Cable (which is one of those mini ends that fits everything)
-Blue-tooth
-Infra-red (yes, it still does it)
It supports its phones way back to whenever PC syncing came into effect.
I plugged the phone in, hit "Backup", backed up the sim. Plugged in the new phone/sim, hit "Restore" and all my contacts are back on the new phone/sim in perfect condition.
All in all, buy a Motorola - mine is 3 1/2 years old and the battery lasts for a week - with average use. And it makes phone calls without a signal drop.
-USB Cable (which is one of those mini ends that fits everything)
-Blue-tooth
-Infra-red (yes, it still does it)
It supports its phones way back to whenever PC syncing came into effect.
I plugged the phone in, hit "Backup", backed up the sim. Plugged in the new phone/sim, hit "Restore" and all my contacts are back on the new phone/sim in perfect condition.
All in all, buy a Motorola - mine is 3 1/2 years old and the battery lasts for a week - with average use. And it makes phone calls without a signal drop.
July 15, 2010 |
Jamie
Jamie
I bought my iPhone 4, brought it home plugged it into iTunes and about 30 minutes later it was registered and was loaded with all my contacts, email accounts, music, podcasts, videos and apps.
Now then, my other half decided that she needed a new phone because the buttons on her Samsung slidey out thing were knackered, so off to the o2 shop we pop (because she is also leaving Orange). A new Samsung touch screen (and by god thats a whole other story on its own) was purchased and brought home.
First of all I cant bluetooth from one phone to 'tother cause of the control issue and I cant change the sim card because the phones are on different networks so all I have to do is get the contacts and photos off the old one and on to the new one. Lets load the new software then, and of course there is only a PC version, no probs because I have three VM's XP, Vista and 7. The new PC suite will only work properly in windows 7 and is very happy with the new phone but doesn't recognise the old phone. The software that came with the old phone only runs in XP and sees the old phone but not the new one. I wont bother you with the endless searching of forums and firmware and drivers, because the best bit is the fact that even though I managed access the contacts in the old phone it wouldn't sync with Outlook or Outlook express, neither would it export as a csv file and you cant copy and paste. So after a total of 5 hours the only option left was to print off the contacts on to a ream of paper!
Welcome to the 21st century……………………..