Contact info from Blackberry 8300 to HTC Shift

[carnevale43]

Hello Everyone,

I am very new to the Android world, like one day new. I am sorry if this has been covered over and over again on the forum, but I have a question. I wanted to transfer my contact info from my Blackberry 8330 to my Shift. I am pretty sure I made a big mistake by foolishly activating my Shift before syncing my old phone with google sync option. Now I have a deactivated blackberry with all of my contact info sitting on it and a brand spanking new HTC shift empty of all my contacts.

So, can I transfer the contact info myself, or will I be faced with going to the Sprint store and having to fork over what ever phantom price they feel like charging me for the transfer?

Thanks for any and all help,

Caesar

carnevale43@yahoo.com

 

[chrisnva]

Sprint store should do it for free...they did my transfer for free

 

[FreudSlipped]

You have wifi still working on the BB? see if you can sync with a Google account.

If not then you can plug it in and sync with the desktop app, put the contacts into Outlook Express and then sync that with your Google account. It sounds a bit convoluted but it should work.

 

[igotsanevo4g]

Moved you to the shift section.

 

[illwood]

You have wifi still working on the BB? see if you can sync with a Google account.

Pretty sure the 8300 doesn't have WiFi (my old 8330 didn't)

If not then you can plug it in and sync with the desktop app, put the contacts into Outlook Express and then sync that with your Google account. It sounds a bit convoluted but it should work.

This would be your best bet.

 

[Schufly]

Correct, 83XX does not have wifi. Copy your stuff into a gmail account and sync. That's your best bet, and most usable in the future.

 

[YoungCorruption]

yea sprint does it for free.. they should of asked you if you wanted to transfer your contacts when you bought the shift

 

[kevinwska]

You should be able to use the Blackberry desktop program to transfer the information. Or just drive back to the sprint store and have them do it since they were suppose to anyway.