*V195 transfering contacts.

Hello there:



I'm getting a Motorola V195 (T-Mobile prepaid) which has Bluetooth connectivity.

I am wondering what would be the best way (program?) to transfer from my computer

my contacts from Outolook to my phone?



Thank you in advance for your help.



Kathy

Kathy wrote:
> Hello there:
>
>
>
> I’m getting a Motorola V195 (T-Mobile prepaid) which has Bluetooth
> connectivity.
>
> I am wondering what would be the best way (program?) to transfer from my
> computer
>
> my contacts from Outolook to my phone?
>
>
>
> Thank you in advance for your help.
>
>
>
> Kathy
>

The solution will involve both hardware and software. The hardware is
either a USB cable (~$5 US) or a or a device attached to your computer
that gives it Bluetooth capability (cost unknown).

The software is Motorola Phone Tools or something with similar
capabilities. I've heard of something called "BitPim" or something
similar but have not actually tried it.

If you got your phone from Verizon Wireless, it's probably crippled in
order to force you to do such things using their network; naturally at
great expense!

On Wed, 07 May 2008 11:15:05 -0400, Richard B. Gilbert
<rgilbert88@comcast.net> wrote:

> The solution will involve both hardware and software. The hardware is
> either a USB cable (~$5 US) or a or a device attached to your computer
> that gives it Bluetooth capability (cost unknown).

You can get Bluetooth USB dongles for under $10. They're really worth it.

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Hello there:



I'm getting a Motorola V195 (T-Mobile prepaid) which has Bluetooth connectivity.

I am wondering what would be the best way (program?) to transfer from my computer

my contacts from Outolook to my phone?



Thank you in advance for your help.



Kathy

"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> wrote:

> Kathy wrote:
>> Hello there:
>> I’m getting a Motorola V195 (T-Mobile prepaid) which has
>> Bluetooth connectivity.
>>
>> I am wondering what would be the best way (program?) to transfer
>> from my computer my contacts from Outlook to my phone?
>
> The solution will involve both hardware and software. The
> hardware is either a USB cable (~$5 US) or a or a device attached
> to your computer that gives it Bluetooth capability (cost
> unknown).

Both are available on Ebay.

> The software is Motorola Phone Tools or something with similar
> capabilities. I've heard of something called "BitPim" or
> something similar but have not actually tried it.

BitPim is free and actually works better for saving and restoring your
phone data but does *not* allow an automatic transfer from or to
Outlook, you'll need to export your contacts from Outlook as a .csv
file and import that into BitPim, you'll need Motorola Phone Tools to
do a direct import from Outlook to the phone. You can get MPT and the
USB data cable you'll need from Ebay.

> If you got your phone from Verizon Wireless, it's probably
> crippled in order to force you to do such things using their
> network; naturally at great expense!

Ignore Richard's pathetic whining, Kathy, he's wrong as always, he's
too stupid to understand that his phone works exactly as advertised and
waaaaay too stupid to change it to work the way he wants it to work.

If your phone is a Verizon phone, and you say it isn't but of course
Richard had to spout off his idiocy w/o reading your post, it will do
exactly as you want using MPT.

Check out the T-Mobile section on Howard Forums, there's probably
information there that will be useful to you.

http://www.howardforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=52






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XS11E wrote:
> "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> Kathy wrote:
>>> Hello there:
>>> I’m getting a Motorola V195 (T-Mobile prepaid) which has
>>> Bluetooth connectivity.
>>>
>>> I am wondering what would be the best way (program?) to transfer
>>> from my computer my contacts from Outlook to my phone?
>> The solution will involve both hardware and software. The
>> hardware is either a USB cable (~$5 US) or a or a device attached
>> to your computer that gives it Bluetooth capability (cost
>> unknown).
>
> Both are available on Ebay.
>
>> The software is Motorola Phone Tools or something with similar
>> capabilities. I've heard of something called "BitPim" or
>> something similar but have not actually tried it.
>
> BitPim is free and actually works better for saving and restoring your
> phone data but does *not* allow an automatic transfer from or to
> Outlook, you'll need to export your contacts from Outlook as a .csv
> file and import that into BitPim, you'll need Motorola Phone Tools to
> do a direct import from Outlook to the phone. You can get MPT and the
> USB data cable you'll need from Ebay.
>
>> If you got your phone from Verizon Wireless, it's probably
>> crippled in order to force you to do such things using their
>> network; naturally at great expense!
>
> Ignore Richard's pathetic whining, Kathy, he's wrong as always, he's
> too stupid to understand that his phone works exactly as advertised and
> waaaaay too stupid to change it to work the way he wants it to work.
>

And just where is it advertised that Verizon Wireless sells phones with
less functionality than apparently identical phones from other providers?

I've been a VZW customer since it was "Bell Atlantic Mobile" and the
RAZR V3m I bought in December is my third cell phone but the first that
appears to have been "crippled"!

"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> wrote:

> And just where is it advertised that Verizon Wireless sells phones
> with less functionality than apparently identical phones from
> other providers?

Your phone has the functionality that is advertised here:

http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/s...edPhoneId=2365

It doesn't have less functionality, it has different functionality.
If you'd look at other providers you'd see they *all* offer different
functionality, very few Razrs are identical, it varies from carrier
to carrier.



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Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> XS11E wrote:
>> "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>> Kathy wrote:
>>>> Hello there:
>>>> I’m getting a Motorola V195 (T-Mobile prepaid) which has
>>>> Bluetooth connectivity.
>>>>
>>>> I am wondering what would be the best way (program?) to transfer
>>>> from my computer my contacts from Outlook to my phone?
>>> The solution will involve both hardware and software. The
>>> hardware is either a USB cable (~$5 US) or a or a device attached
>>> to your computer that gives it Bluetooth capability (cost
>>> unknown).
>>
>> Both are available on Ebay.
>>
>>> The software is Motorola Phone Tools or something with similar
>>> capabilities. I've heard of something called "BitPim" or
>>> something similar but have not actually tried it.
>>
>> BitPim is free and actually works better for saving and restoring
>> your phone data but does *not* allow an automatic transfer from or to
>> Outlook, you'll need to export your contacts from Outlook as a .csv
>> file and import that into BitPim, you'll need Motorola Phone Tools to
>> do a direct import from Outlook to the phone. You can get MPT and
>> the USB data cable you'll need from Ebay.
>>
>>> If you got your phone from Verizon Wireless, it's probably
>>> crippled in order to force you to do such things using their
>>> network; naturally at great expense!
>>
>> Ignore Richard's pathetic whining, Kathy, he's wrong as always, he's
>> too stupid to understand that his phone works exactly as advertised
>> and waaaaay too stupid to change it to work the way he wants it to
>> work.
>
> And just where is it advertised that Verizon Wireless sells phones
> with less functionality than apparently identical phones from other
> providers?
> I've been a VZW customer since it was "Bell Atlantic Mobile" and the
> RAZR V3m I bought in December is my third cell phone but the first
> that appears to have been "crippled"!

The point is that the OP said she's on T-Mo so why discuss VZW?

XS11E wrote:
> "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> And just where is it advertised that Verizon Wireless sells phones
>> with less functionality than apparently identical phones from
>> other providers?
>
> Your phone has the functionality that is advertised here:
>
> http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/s...edPhoneId=2365
>
> It doesn't have less functionality, it has different functionality.
> If you'd look at other providers you'd see they *all* offer different
> functionality, very few Razrs are identical, it varies from carrier
> to carrier.

I think you have to agree that "different" in this case also means "more
limited" than other carriers (TMo allows the full functionality of BT as
do ATT and, IIRC, Sprint. Yes, it can be changed to restore full
functionality but it is still nonetheless, "crippled" when compared to
others. If you prefer "functionally challenged" as a more PC description
that's still accurate.

"BruceR" <razrbruce@NOgmailSPAM.com> wrote:

>
>
> XS11E wrote:
>> "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88@comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>>> And just where is it advertised that Verizon Wireless sells
>>> phones with less functionality than apparently identical phones
>>> from other providers?
>>
>> Your phone has the functionality that is advertised here:
>>
>> http://www.verizonwireless.com/b2c/s...item=phoneFirs
>> t&action=viewPhoneDetail&selectedPhoneId=2365
>>
>> It doesn't have less functionality, it has different
>> functionality. If you'd look at other providers you'd see they
>> *all* offer different functionality, very few Razrs are
>> identical, it varies from carrier to carrier.
>
> I think you have to agree that "different" in this case also means
> "more limited" than other carriers (TMo allows the full
> functionality of BT as do ATT and, IIRC, Sprint.

No, I wouldn't agree. Verizon phones do everything the others do but
sometimes through different means.

I'll stick with "different" as the correct term unless you'd agree
"more limited" also applies to phones that can't get Vcast, GIN, etc.
etc....


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