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Importing Contact Data from Other Programs

If you have contact information stored in another program (such as a database program on Windows or Mac OS X), or you've stored information on a mobile phone such as a BlackBerry or Windows Mobile device, you can transfer that data to your iPhone, but it may take a few extra steps. Fortunately, you'll only have to do this once, so here's the basic idea of how it works.

To transfer contact data trapped on another mobile phone, you must first synchronize the data with your ordinary database program on your computer (such as Microsoft Outlook). After all your data is current in your computer database program, you'll have to export all the data to one of four types of files:

• vCard A standard file format for ...