How To Copy Or Transfer Contacts From Your Nokia Phone To An iPhone
I got a call this morning from one of my readers who uses a Nokia phone and later upgraded to an iPhone and wish to transfer or copy all his contacts on the Nokia phone to his newly bought iPhone. If you have similar issue or challenge, this post will help to put you through on how to do it!
I will be explaining the process for S40-60 Nokia phones (like the E-Series), and then for the older versions of Nokia Phones.
Copying from S40-60 (E-Series):
The easiest way to transfer your contact to an iPhone is by using the Google Mobile Sync to copy your contacts from the phone and then to Google Contacts after which you use Google Sync on the iPhone to bring the copied contacts from the cloud into your phone’s address book. Sound simple right?
Copying from Older Nokia Phones:
The simple way to copy your saved contacts to an iPhone is using your operator’s SIM (MTN, GLO, AIRTEL, or ETISALAT) to transfer contacts from the Nokia phone to your iPhone. The steps by step guide below will put you through:
Step 1: Put the SIM inside the SIM port on your Nokia phone
Step 2: Go to Contacts – > Options – > Mark / Unmark – > Mark All. (This action will select all your existing contacts)
Step 3: Now go to Options – > Copy – > Copy contacts to and choose SIM memory.
Step 4: Next insert the SIM card into your iPhone and, as shown in the above screen capture
Step 5: Now go to Settings – > Mail, Contacts, Calendars and tap the Import SIM contacts button. After that, configure the iPhone using your Gmail account and then use Google Contacts to eliminate or merge duplicates, if any, from the iPhone.
What You Should Know
Nokia phones by default accepts regular SIM cards while iPhones would only accept micro-SIM cards. If it is the new iPhone 5, it would accept Nano SIM cards. I spelled out the differences between these three (3) SIM Cards under the MTN Nano SIM Card For iPhone 5.
Normally you will need to cut the SIM card to fit into the iPhone. If you have already done that, ask the mobile shop where you bought the iPhone for Micro SIM adapters. That should help you to make the transfer. The only limitation you will experience is that your SIM may not have enough storage for all phone numbers which means that you may have to do the transfer process in batches. Thanks to Amit Agarwal (@labnol)
I will be explaining the process for S40-60 Nokia phones (like the E-Series), and then for the older versions of Nokia Phones.
Copying from S40-60 (E-Series):
The easiest way to transfer your contact to an iPhone is by using the Google Mobile Sync to copy your contacts from the phone and then to Google Contacts after which you use Google Sync on the iPhone to bring the copied contacts from the cloud into your phone’s address book. Sound simple right?
Copying from Older Nokia Phones:
The simple way to copy your saved contacts to an iPhone is using your operator’s SIM (MTN, GLO, AIRTEL, or ETISALAT) to transfer contacts from the Nokia phone to your iPhone. The steps by step guide below will put you through:
Step 1: Put the SIM inside the SIM port on your Nokia phone
Step 2: Go to Contacts – > Options – > Mark / Unmark – > Mark All. (This action will select all your existing contacts)
Step 3: Now go to Options – > Copy – > Copy contacts to and choose SIM memory.
Step 4: Next insert the SIM card into your iPhone and, as shown in the above screen capture
Step 5: Now go to Settings – > Mail, Contacts, Calendars and tap the Import SIM contacts button. After that, configure the iPhone using your Gmail account and then use Google Contacts to eliminate or merge duplicates, if any, from the iPhone.
What You Should Know
Nokia phones by default accepts regular SIM cards while iPhones would only accept micro-SIM cards. If it is the new iPhone 5, it would accept Nano SIM cards. I spelled out the differences between these three (3) SIM Cards under the MTN Nano SIM Card For iPhone 5.
Normally you will need to cut the SIM card to fit into the iPhone. If you have already done that, ask the mobile shop where you bought the iPhone for Micro SIM adapters. That should help you to make the transfer. The only limitation you will experience is that your SIM may not have enough storage for all phone numbers which means that you may have to do the transfer process in batches. Thanks to Amit Agarwal (@labnol)
