Surely I'm not that unusual in having more than 200 entries in my handset's phonebook? So why was it so difficult to transfer my numbers from a Nokia to the Samsung S8000/Jet? Perhaps I've been spoilt by having Nokia handse's which support the 'Transfer/Switch' facility which makes it so easy to transfer data when you upgrade to a new Nokia. Blackberries have an equally easy switch capability, too. Yet – even though I'd installed the accompanying PC Suite software for the Jet, -I could find no obvious way of importing my 347 records (which include email addresses not just phone numbers).
Curiously it would have been possible to send each individual entry via Bluetooth using the Nokia 'Send business card' option.
Surely I'm not that unusual in having more than 200 entries in my handset's phonebook? So why was it so difficult to transfer my numbers from a Nokia to the Samsung S8000/Jet?
Perhaps I've been spoilt by having Nokia handse's which support the 'Transfer/Switch' facility which makes it so easy to transfer data when you upgrade to a new Nokia. Blackberries have an equally easy switch capability, too.
Yet – even though I'd installed the accompanying PC Suite software for the Jet, -I could find no obvious way of importing my 347 records (which include email addresses not just phone numbers).
Curiously it would have been possible to send each individual entry via Bluetooth using the Nokia 'Send business card' option.
In fact, the Jet deals with received business cards better than Nokia does. Once the 'object' is received on the Jet, it is automatically saved into the addressbook.
With Nokias, you receive the card as a text message which needs to be opened then saved back into the addressbook. So full marks to Samsung here.
It probably would have been possible to use Microsoft Outlook as an intermediary but then my Outlook addressbook has thousands of entries.
I had high hopes of transferring via Googlemail – which is what I did with an Android hnadset. But mysteriously, although support for Gmail is built directly into the Jet, I could find no 'download and save the addressbook' option.
Experiencing a sense of deja vue, I found that I'd actually managed to save a Nokia's adressbook back as individual .vcf files in an effort to swap over to an Android phone.
The good news, therefore, is that this same procedure worked with the Jet and I managed to import the entire addressbook via a USB connexion and the PC. What a palaver!
My next mission was to get the Jet's inbuilt GPS capability running. To date, I haven't got this going but I have high hopes that I will after a swift chat with Samsung's UK PR company.
In theory, the necessary location software – Route 66 – should be on the CD supplied with the handset. In my case, it was definitely missing so I suspect this is a capability which Samsung isn't yet supporting in the UK.
It's possible to get the requisite software for the Jet by going to the Route 66 web site – http://www.66.com/samsung. However, you appear to need a voucher to run it and I don't have one.
While we're on the subject, getting the handset to recognise the Route 66 package involved turned the GPS capability on and off several times.
My next mission, however, is to go through the standard widgets which Samsung offers with the Jet phone.
