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Question

How to transfer contacts from dumb phone to dumb phone

Apr 21, 2016 8:58AM PDT

I have a samsung keystone 3. It's a bit primitive, I know-but I like being disconnected from social media, makes life easier and less dizzying. Anyway I store my contacts on my phone as my SIM only lets me have one number per person (perhaps it's just the sims in my country, or are they all like that?) I'm getting a new dumb phone, and although I can technically transfer my contacts to my SIM and from there into my new phone, when I do that it only records one number from each contact, making me manually go through them to fix it and add numbers.

Is there anyway I can do this easier? Perhaps copying the contact files (through my computer) and pasting them in my new phone? (A Nokia 20Cool Would that work?

Thanks in advance!

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Unless there are apps from each to do this.
Apr 21, 2016 9:18AM PDT

The usual is a cellular service counter that has boxes in the back made by Cellebrite.

Some folk get the idea that such is done on a PC (it isn't.)

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What is that?
Apr 21, 2016 12:29PM PDT

What is this service, and how much does it cost?

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I don't run this service.
Apr 21, 2016 6:04PM PDT

You can google Cellebrite to see the boxes and gear cellular service counters use. Here the counter did it for free when I buy the phone from them.