Apple’s iphone and Nokia mobile devices are undoubtedly one of the most popular smartphones/ cellphones in the world; and transferring its contacts, phonebook and other data shouldn’t be the problem. Apparently, if you don’t have enough tools or what they call it ‘common software’, there’s no straight and easy way out. At least that’s what I thought initially, this question bugged me for almost a week until I found the solution. I think it’s worth sharing with internet via screencast & writing a how-to article for it.
Things you need:
- Nokia mobile phone with memory card
- Computer with iTunes.
- iPhone
First On Nokia phone
- Nokia: Go to contacts/ phonebook
- Nokia: Select all contacts
- Nokia: Option> save contacts
- Nokia: Select destination as memory card
- Plug in your nokia phone to computer in data transfer mode.
- Browse through your nokia memory card and open /Others/ folder
- Open ‘contacts’ folder placed in memory card/Others/contact
- Select All contacts and copy-paste them in ‘windows contact’.
- Windows contacts, (known as windows Address Book in windows XP) can be found in C:\Users\Logged-in-user\Contacts\ or you can click win logo or press win key and type ‘contacts’ in search slot windows start.
- Plug in iPhone to the computer.
- Open iTunes, if it doesn’t pop up automatically.
- Select iPhone in iTunes and open ‘info’ tab
- check/ mark/tick ‘sync contacts with ‘windows contacts’ (choose from dropdown menu)
- press ‘sync’ button.
- Done.
PS: When I tested this to newer Nokia phones such as Nokia E5-00, X2-01 it doesn’t have option to copy your phonebook contacts into memory card, the same way I’ve showed. However as long as you could backup your phonebook/contacts list you’re good to go and follow the rest of the instructions.
