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Little Wireless Rant
by
Mark Evans
on Sun 13 Feb 2005 10:04 PM EST | Permanent Link
Not sure what it's like in the U.S. but I've mystified by the inability to simply transfer data from an old wireless phone to a new phone. It means that after you have spent hours inputting contact information, you have to do it all over again with a new device. Shouldn't there be a way to upload to a wireless carrier's Web site, and then download to a new device? It strikes me this should be a standard process given the larger memory capacity many devices now sport. Perhaps I'm missing something; maybe there are carriers that accomodate this process. Maybe the reason they don't allow it or publicize it is to deter people from switching to another device, which is usually subsidized by the carrier.
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Re: Little Wireless Rant
by
Boris Mann
on Sun 13 Feb 2005 10:40 PM EST | Profile | Permanent Link
Only smartphones that can sync to your computer can actually do this, or a carrier which uses SIM cards (which is Rogers/Fido on both counts).
After various misadventures with devices that don't sync, I'm only ever going to use a phone that synchronizes with my main contact database on my computer. It would be a great "mass market" service for lower-end phones, but phone hardware doesn't look like it's getting cheaper in Canada any time soon (esp. if you get it without a contract). |
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