New phone, can't trasnfer contacts... Motorola v360 to Samsung Blast

[Bryan Herbst]

So, here's how this goes. Got a new phone today. Yay! Decided I wanted to transfer all of my contacts from my old phone (Motorola v360) to the new one (Samsung Blast).

First thought- I'll use bluetooth. Of course, I can't have both phones on at once because I only have one SIM card, and that's a requirement for bluetooth.

Second thought I'll save all my contacts to my SIM card. Nope. First, my v360 told me it could only save phone number entries to the card (which all of my contacts are anyways), and proceeded to save the to the SIM card, and for some reason made a whole ton of copies of the same number (one such person that has three entries simply has three separate speed numbers...). It saved a total of 116 entries to the SIM card, and I can see them there on my old phone. I put the card in the new phone, and the phone says that there are no contacts on the SIM card. I have a feeling there is a issue with the way the two phones save contacts, but can't be sure.

Third, I thought I would be able to transfer the contacts to the computer, then to the new phone. Or with a Micro SD card. Unfortunately, neither phone can store contacts to Micro SD cards. I can't for the life of me find any way to transfer entries from the v360 to my computer. The phone came with a USB cable, but no software. I would have to buy the software.


I can't even manually enter the numbers, as I can't access both phonebooks at the same time (one SIM card, remember). I would have to first write all the numbers down, then copy them a second time into the new phone.


If anyone can provide a way to copy the contacts to my computer from the v360, use both phones at once with one SIM card, or get the SIM card to do this for me, it would be much appreciate. If anyone has any experience transferring to/from either phone, that would also help.

Thanks!!
~Tanis

PS- I've been scouring the internet for awhile now, for both legal and not-so-legal ways to do this, with nothing but a bunch of crappy programs to show for it.