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TA-t3	2010-01-29 , 17:17
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Originally Posted by kenny_evo

That is the main point, how come we can import all the contacts from SIM CARD to the phone, but can't export from the PHONE BOOK to SIM CARD. I think Nokia should take serious of consideration to make every user more convinience~~

The SIM card doesn't have contacts. It has a very (VERY) basic list of phone numbers, with just name/number pairs. The name field is also quite short. Thus, you can import the phone list into a contacts database, but you can't export the contacts database into the phone list. Not without at least making a new entry for every number, so that a contact entry like

Code:

first middle lastname
home: 123555678
work: 555123555
mobile: 199555199199
email: someone@example.com
address: somewhere sometown

becomes

Code:

first lastname
123555678

first lastname
555123555

first lastname
199555199199

i.e. separate entries for each number, no metadata, shorter name, no mail address, no physical address, etc. Messy.

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