blackberry to android

[Hybrid4830]

hey i have a question to all those who have made the switch from BB to Android. is there a way to take the contacts from your bb and get them on the new phone using your computer? the reason I ask is because my VZW store doesnt have that nifty little machine that transfers contacts over and i really dont want to do it all manually. I do have a Gmail account if that helps out at all. thanks in advance

 

[jakaro]

Im wonder the same thing, im making that switch at the end of the month. But, i use google voice, and it lets you import all of your contacts for backup, and from what i understand is google voice comes in 2.1 android, so that may be the answer, im not sure about any other way though

 

[judeism]

I am also dumping my storm for my 1st android on the 29th along with contacts can you do calendar? And how do android phones work with macs? Any better than bb's?

 

[Phongables]

Google sync it. You don't even need a computer to transfer it.

 

[area52]

Exactly Google sync is the way. Download it to your BB at m.google.com/sync and let it run. When you activate your new android phone they will populate automatically.

 

[Adiliyo]

google sync will do your calendar too.

android phone work really well with the google's cloud in general, and don't do much syncing with computers...

 

[NIKSTORM]

what about baking the phone up in general? right now i use desktop manager and it backs up my whole phone on my computer.... can i do this with a andriod phone?

 

[judeism]

I am also getting the Incredible coming from the paper weight I've been using called the storm. The one good thing about the storm is the screen would not scratch. Is the screen on the incredible scratch resistant also?

 

[moke]

what is on the card, stays on the card.

the handset settings and apps are cloud based. if you go from an htc eris, to a motorola droid, just use the same email address and everything will be transfered, except for what is on the card...

 

[Hybrid4830]

Thanks for the help everyone. it is greatly appreciated.

 

[JadynV]

nice thread. i've learned a lot. thanks to all!

 

[88 FLUX]

Another vote from me for using Google Sync. What I did was downloaded it from m.google.com/sync (as mentioned previously in this thread) and let that run for the contacts on my BB. Keep in mind, however, that based on how certain contacts are formatted in your BB, it might make some minor adjustments. For example, some contacts that had a company name, no first/last name, and an e-mail address got auto formatted to put the e-mail address in as the first name. So you may have to do some minor cleanup in the BB afterwards if you plan on still using it as well. After that onetime sync, I uninstalled Google Sync since I sync my BB with Outlook 2007 regularly.

After the sync was done, I went into my Google Contacts account and did cleanup there (most e-mail addresses were labeled as "Other" instead of Work or Home and a couple other minor things needed to be changed. I am anal about that kind of stuff). After I was done with that, I activated the contact syncing on my Nexus One and within a couple minutes, my contact list was complete and perfect.