It's a matter of opinion and what you're used to. As a long time
Motorola user I tried a Nokia and was ready to throw it off a bridge
because I found it so irritating to use. I could say that Nokia is
"crap" because it's not compatible with Motorola but that's not a fair
assessment - it's all in the eyes of the beholder.


> Ben Anderson wrote:
>> Is the problem that my new RAZR doesn't understand the phonebook
>> format left on the Sim card by my Nokia? I thought there might be a
>> standard GSM Sim card phonebook format that every GSM phone could
>> read. Odd that it did read the text messages that I received on my
>> Nokia.
>
> Motorola is crap, that's why it isn't compatible with your Nokia. They
> might look good but the user interface is a pig to operate and
> not the least bit user friendly.

Ben Anderson <Ben@dontwantnospam.com> wrote in
news:Xns97B37647F101jb1234nospam@64.245.249.102:

> "BruceR" <br@NOhawaiiSPAM.com> wrote in
> news:6t94g.203$yM.42@tornado.socal.rr.com:
>
>> You'll need a program like DataPilot. With it, you can read the SIM
>> from your old phone, adjust the entry format, then put the SIM in the
>> new phone and upload it.
>
> Thanks, I hadn't heard of DataPilot. I bought a copy of Motorola's
> Phone Tools v4 with my new phone. It didn't come with a manual, maybe
> it's on the CD.

I set up Motorola's Phone Tools (MPT) over the weekend and synchronized my
RAZR with Outlook's Contacts. I only had about 25 contacts, so I just
typed them in Outlook and synchronized them into the RAZR. MPT updated to
version 4.04 after I installed it and recognized my phone as a V3i, so that
was cool.

It is unfortunate that the RAZR makes separate entries for each phone
number associated with a single contact. My old Nokia 6200 allowed
multiple numbers for individual contacts and I got used to it. I'm
surprised that the RAZR doesn't allow multiple numbers for a single
contact.

It does allow you to set a "primary" contact and hide the others behind
it.


> Ben Anderson <Ben@dontwantnospam.com> wrote in
> news:Xns97B37647F101jb1234nospam@64.245.249.102:
>
>> "BruceR" <br@NOhawaiiSPAM.com> wrote in
>> news:6t94g.203$yM.42@tornado.socal.rr.com:
>>
>>> You'll need a program like DataPilot. With it, you can read the SIM
>>> from your old phone, adjust the entry format, then put the SIM in
>>> the new phone and upload it.
>>
>> Thanks, I hadn't heard of DataPilot. I bought a copy of Motorola's
>> Phone Tools v4 with my new phone. It didn't come with a manual,
>> maybe it's on the CD.
>
> I set up Motorola's Phone Tools (MPT) over the weekend and
> synchronized my RAZR with Outlook's Contacts. I only had about 25
> contacts, so I just typed them in Outlook and synchronized them into
> the RAZR. MPT updated to version 4.04 after I installed it and
> recognized my phone as a V3i, so that was cool.
>
> It is unfortunate that the RAZR makes separate entries for each phone
> number associated with a single contact. My old Nokia 6200 allowed
> multiple numbers for individual contacts and I got used to it. I'm
> surprised that the RAZR doesn't allow multiple numbers for a single
> contact.

"BruceR" <br@NOhawaiiSPAM.com> wrote in
news:yGs5g.3815$yM.808@tornado.socal.rr.com:

> It does allow you to set a "primary" contact and hide the others
> behind it.

Ah, thank you. I keep forgetting to press the menu "-" button while I'm
in an option. It acts as sort of a context sensitive menu (right click)
in Windows. Pressing "Menu" while in the Phone Book and then "Setup"
brings up a dialog with several additional options in it.

Changing "View by" from "Picture" to "List" makes the phone book listing
show in single lines of text.

Changing "View" from "All Contacts" to "Primary Contacts" makes multiple
numbers for the same name hidden. Pressing the right arrow shows the
additional number icons. Very cool.

Thanks for the tip!

BruceR wrote:
> It does allow you to set a "primary" contact and hide the others behind
> it.

Yes, but that doesn't seem to be the default on Moto phones. I thought the
same thing about my V188 and just recently found that it'll let you show all
the contacts under one phonebook entry.

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