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I take it you are not using a google phone where the contacts would go from phone to phone once you sign into your google account?
You must have missed "They are both flips phones".
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Originally Posted by porterjack
save contacts to SIM card, use same SIM card
You must have missed "switching providers".
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Originally Posted by dontaskwhy
SIM cards don't have enough storage capacity (memory measured in kilobytes vs. mega or gigabytes) to store the average user's contacts. Perhaps you were thinking about an SD card to store the contacts which is not the same thing.
In ye oldern days, contacts could be saved to a sim. Name+number in a doesn't take up any space at all. Remember you couldn't even save addresses back then.
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Originally Posted by lodestar 77
I had to manually do so when I changed from flip phone to old (hand-me-down) iPhone, then from old iPhone to new iPhone SE2020. I deleted old ones I had no use for, but it was still like 35. NBD for just name and number, any other information can be added at a later date.
You are doing it wrong. You should never have to re-enter contacts going from any iPhone to another. Use iCloud or associate your contacts with your email address on your phone.
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Originally Posted by Chava61
I am wondering if one can back up contacts to Apple icloud prior to replacing a phone to solve this problem.
Of course. When you save your contacts you can choose to save them TO your actual email. So lets say Gmail. Then you can login to Gmail and see your contacts. Any time you login in to any new phone they will get pulled down. Or you can use iCloud to save them. This is usually defaulted to on., as dk747 said.
As for OP you need to either do it by hand or go to the store where you get your new phone.
Or just get a damn smartphone already.
SIM cards don't have enough storage capacity (memory measured in kilobytes vs. mega or gigabytes) to store the average user's contacts. Perhaps you were thinking about an SD card to store the contacts which is not the same thing.
I spoke to person at MetroPCS who said I couldn't transfer to an SD card. Don't know why, but that's what I remember she told me. Maybe she doesn't know or maybe I misunderstood. I'll have to go to MetroPCS store to get more info, but I'm sure some of the reps don't know what they're talking about. (oh well)
OK, I checked, and an iPhone is, "a line of touchscreen-based smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. that use Apple's iOS mobile operating system." So it's a type of smartphone, but it's evidently singularly under the Apple headship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone
The usage of terms iphone, smartphone, etc. can be confusing. As I understand it, IPhone is really for that marketed by Apple.
OK, I checked, and an iPhone is, "a line of touchscreen-based smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. that use Apple's iOS mobile operating system." So it's a type of smartphone, but it's evidently singularly under the Apple headship. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone
The usage of terms iphone, smartphone, etc. can be confusing. As I understand it, IPhone is really for that marketed by Apple.
yup it can be confusing to a n00bie. smart-fones can be manufactured by multiple manufacturers:
sooo I'm assuming that although the flip fone I bought has ability to connect to internet, has camera, radio fm, it is not classified as a smart phone. Would you say that is right?
And...iphones are smartphones but have a different OS not available to plain old smartphones.
2 types of phones: feature phones and smart phones.
You have a feature phone. It has a few features, but mostly just a phone. Also called dumb phones.
I don't believe there are any phones anymore that are so dumb they don't have those basic features that yours as.
"Technologically Handicapped". I think handicapped is still PC.
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