mike[space] dot net

As recently noted, I have finally got around to porting Claire over to my old iPhone (thanks to Dave for keeping me up to date by providing his hand-me-up). This would have been done ages ago, if it weren't for the fact that Claire's phone couldn't sync with her laptop, and I didn't relish manually typing in all her numbers.

I had assumed that the iPhone would automatically import the contacts, but I couldn't see any function that would do that, and some searches online seemed to confirm that it was not possible. So I dug out my old sony ericsson, shoved Claire's sim card in there, synced the contacts across via bluetooth to her laptop, and then setup the iPhone to sync with the newly created contacts.

This took a bit of time, was a little fiddly, and generally I could have done without it. Imagine my dismay when, having updated the iPhone to 3.0, I almost immediately discovered the "import sim contacts" button that sits in the "Msil, Contacts, Calendars" section of the phone settings *sigh*

Other than that, it was all very straightforward ...