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Mobile Contact Exporter App

Recently I got a new HTC Desire, the Google phone or Nexus One, in the rest of the world. I was faced with the perennial problem of getting my contacts off the old phone that had been in service for 3-4 years and onto the Android device. There was no easy way to do this, especially since I run Ubuntu. Luckily I am a JME developer and soon verified that the Nokia E70 supported JSR75, which allows for access to the mobile phones address book, and the ability to write files to local storage on the phone.

Export Mobile/Cell Contact to VCard Format 

I quickly wrote the app to export all my phone contact to vcard format on the phone sd card and then copied off via bluetooth. From there I simply imported the vcards into evolution. To get it onto the Android device I imported the evolution contact to csv format via the command line tool "evolution-addressbook-export" and imported into GMail.

I am sure there are countless applications like this out there but it was fun writing it. 

 The source code can be found on GitHub.  It can be downloaded here.

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by Dr. Radut.