Best way to transfer contact info?

[f4phantomii]

OK...I've got all my address and phone number contact info stored on my very old Palm OS device.

I can export that to a few different formats. What's the best way to get all that contact info onto my new G1?

[NismoG35]

This is comeing right from the gmail website.

"We support importing contacts in the CSV file format (Comma Separated Values). For best results, please use a CSV file produced by Outlook, Outlook Express, Yahoo!, or Hotmail. "

Note the part that says "for best results" but it doesnt mean some other ways wont work.

[f4phantomii]

Ugg....trying that was a disaster.

Exported from Palm Desktop to CSV format. Did not go well. Lots of fields in Palm Addressbook that aren't present in Gmail contacts.

I can edit it with Excel and fix some things, but that seems to just put everything in the "Notes" field of Gmail contacts. I can probably eventually get everything converted in this manner, but it would take as long (possibly longer) than just re-typing everything by hand.

Extremely frustrating!

Any other suggestions?

[xravexboix]

I synced my Curve to the BB Desktop Manager. Imported those items into Outlook then manually typed everything into GMail.

Try syncing with Outlook and have Outlook create the CSV file. I would think Microsoft's premier office suite would use a very standardized CSV format. Aside from that... have fun typing =\ I had to manually input about 100 contacts w/ multiple numbers and e-mail addresses (never stored anything as such on GMail before). Plus GMail will probably be expecting the CSV to come from Outlook in most cases.