Transferring Nokia N95 contacts, calendar, data etc to smartphone

spencey7

Hello all,

I'm looking into (finally...) changing my faithful Nokia N95 to a smartphone. (Not sure which model of smartphone, but not an iPhone!)

I'd like to transfer everything to my new device, whatever that might be, and was wondering if anyone has any experience of how/if this can work? Is it a reasonably straight-forward process? Keeping the calendar details are very, very important...

Many thanks for reading, any recommendations or advice would be hugely appreciated!

Im_just_careful

I've not done exactly what you want but I have the following thoughts.

Nokia phones of that generation could be synced to Microsoft Outlook (not Outlook Express) by a bit of Nokia software.

It required clear thinking to use but that might get the contacts, calendar etc onto a PC.

If you then used Outlook in exchange mode with GMail that would get everything into the Google products and from there (or Outlook) you should be able to get stuff to your (non Apple) smartphone.

As a one step solution http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/ looks worth investigation.

Having had a few "bad calendar experiences" in the past I strongly recommend some form of backup before you start !

digp

use gmail?
if so use roadsync to sync your contacts to gmail and then you can sync them to the android device

spencey7

Cheers for the reply digp - my email is actually with Hotmail, but I do have a Google account so this could work... However do you know if this would also sync the calendar etc? (I have about four years worth of notes stored and would really like to keep them as they are!)

buscape

The N95 is a smartphone! I know that the Nokia Lumia phones have a transfer app (much like your N95) which will deal with all that.

Post again when you have decided which phone you want and someone will no doubt be able to offer more help.

spencey7

Hi buscape, thanks for your reply. Sorry, I should have made clear that I know the N95 is a smartphone, but it's now pretty dated given what modern touchscreen mobiles are capable of.

I hadn't really considered a new Nokia model as the company seem to be on far-from-sure footing at the moment... I'm not a fan of Apple's penchant for incompatibility, so was leaning towards an HTC or Samsung.

All this said, the transfer of calendar details is of huge importance to me, so maybe Nokia is the way to go...? As I say, any advice or recommendations would be hugely appreciated.

Thanks again!

buscape

spencey7 wrote: »

I hadn't really considered a new Nokia model as the company seem to be on far-from-sure footing at the moment...

They've made a loss, they aren't going to go bankrupt any time soon so don't let that worry you.

I'm not a fan of Apple's penchant for incompatibility, so was leaning towards an HTC or Samsung.

Both are Android, so the advice in post #2 will be the best way of getting your stuff onto the new phone.

All this said, the transfer of calendar details is of huge importance to me, so maybe Nokia is the way to go...? As I say, any advice or recommendations would be hugely appreciated.

Turns out the built in transfer app is only for contacts stupidly, so you have to work a bit harder to get your calendar entries onto a Lumia phone, but you have a Hotmail account which might make it a bit easier. I can't tell you which phone to get, you have decide which fits your needs best. You will be able to get your contacts and calendars onto any smartphone these days, it's just that some will be more difficult than others.

baldelectrician

Download Nokia Data Suite (or OVI suite) as it may be called now

Use this to sync your calandar and contacts

When you get the new phone use the data suite of thenew phone to work the other way

I had a N95 and now ise a N86, won't go with a new phone atall- I actually bought 4 other N86's on ebay to keep things alive for a while.

I like the N86 as you can backup to the memory card

If you buy a decent (new) nokia it will have a 'data transfer' utility to transfer the contacts and calendar

ps
Back up the Nokia N95 before you do anyhting- do it to 2 places (a usb drive and a PC file)

buscape

The Nokia Windows Phones aren't compatible with Nokia Suite, you have to use Zune.

baldelectrician

buscape wrote: »

The Nokia Windows Phones aren't compatible with Nokia Suite, you have to use Zune.

But the N95 is, so the OP can use this to transfer the data to his PC and backup the phone aswell

Rusty!

Install Nokia Mail for Exchange, set up your Google account with it and it will sync contacts and calendar entries to the cloud.

Then sync them with your new phone, and keep them synced for future changes.

Brilliant system.