Phone Address Book Contacts Export

Have you ever had a cell phone with too many contacts to copy manually by hand? Switching cell phones can be a bitch only because transferring the contacts from one phone to the other means finding a way to export all your contacts off your phone.

On the Windows world there are utilities like Content Manager which let's you export all your contacts to Outlook Express or Outlook, but there are several things that need to be done before that step. For the complete instructions go to this forum and see if this suits you.

The downside to using a Windows machine is that you will need to have your service carrier tap into your old phone and then give you a *.pbb file which then can be used with Content Manager.

On the Mac side things get much easier. All you need to do is connect your old phone (assuming it has a USB port to connect to a computer) and then open up the application called "iSync". iSync will synchronize all your contacts to the application called "Address Book" on your Mac.

Apple's Address Book has one HUGE fault with it. You cannot export to CSV. I know... I don't understand why Apple wouldn't include that as a feature on that program. At this point you need to go here and download a free application called Address Book Exporter 2.1.2.

This wonderful application lets you export all your contacts to a CSV file. Once you've exported all the contacts, you can either import them to your Gmail account or Outlook/Outlook Express application.

By the way, Apple's Mac OS X Leopard (10.5) still hasn't added the export to CSV feature in the Address Book application.