Daft Doctor Posted August 1, 2011 Share Posted August 1, 2011 Hi, I currently have an HTC desire smartphone on an o2 contract with internet access. I realise that when I move to France next year I will need to sign up with one of the French networks (such as Orange, SFR, Bougyes Telecom) and will go for a similar contract and a new smartphone. Does that mean I will have to manually enter the contact details for everyone in my UK phone into my French one, or is there a workaround using a PC which might avoid such a laborious process? Thanks for any info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnM Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 I've got an HTC Wildfire (and wish that I'd bought a faster one). I can synchronise my "phone" diary, contacts etc with Microsoft Outlook on the PC and vice versa. So, IF YOU CHANGE YOUR PHONE (to French, English or whatever) you should be able to do a synchronise to the PC and then back to your new phone.Alternatively, you should be able to move everything from your UK phone to the UK SIM, pop the UK SIM in the French phone and copy to the French phone, then replace the SIM with the French one and pop the UK card back in the UK phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rabbie Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Remember tho that some phones are locked to a particular network and unless you pay your network for unlocking codes they won't work with a SIM from a different network Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pierre ZFP Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Any halfways decent phone shop will have a SIM card reader and do it for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Théière Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Just save to the SD card using the import export feature of People, then menu. So easy it doesn't need anything else.O2 have never locked their phones, nice, company so you. Could just buy a French sim and use without modification Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daft Doctor Posted August 2, 2011 Author Share Posted August 2, 2011 Hi, thanks for all of that. I'd forgotten completely that you could just download contacts to SD then just transfer across to a new phone. It would be handy if the o2 phone wasn't locked, but then again I always like it when upgrade time comes along, so a new handset from the french network would be fine by me. I could always keep the old one as back up if (as has been my recent experience) the first handset received isn't up to the mark so has to go back!Seems the advertised coverage for 3G from the main 3 french networks is very good, even in the Alps. Just wondered what people out there had experienced in this respect? SFR seem very competitive on contract price, unless I'm missing something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnM Posted August 2, 2011 Share Posted August 2, 2011 Pish. I wish I'd thought of the SD card option, it's so obvious when you think about it. I blame the hot weather. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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