Re: Best upgrade from a Nokia 6310i?

On 1 May, 06:52, Peter <occassionally-confu...@nospam.co.uk> wrote:
> I've been using the 6310i for years and have theNokiahands free kit
> in the car also.
>
> Recently, as the phones pack up, I've been buying up replacements on
> Ebay. But they are getting increasingly tacky, for 70+ quid.
>
> What is the best way forward from this phone?Nokiadon't seem to have
> a decent "business" phone. I like the Motorola ones, but what about
>
> a) transferring the phonebook? I have ~ 300 names in there

I got a 6300 yesterday to replace the 6310i i've been using for
years. It's the first 'modern' phone i've seen that seems to be
predominantly a phone rather than a toy. It's not bad. Quick to
boot, doesn't keep connecting to the net when i press the navi key
(unlike a few phones i've tried where that seems to be the default
behavior for about 4 different keys).

Size is nice - not too thin,, not too short. keypad could do with a
bit more space underneath it to make it easier to use.

Getting your phonebook on should be easy enough - the new pc suite is
a lot better than the crap Nokia used to ship. Infra red to a pc
from your 6310 would probably be easiest then download back via a
standard usb cable (good move Nokia!).

Other comments:
- not a single decent, "normal", ringtone on it. grrr.
- why the new charger plug? Charger itself is a work of art - smaller
than most 3 pin plugs- but incompatible with my old chargers and feels
delicate
- stupid over-small memory cards?
- Why the stupid 2.5mm headphone socket? surely it's worth the space
to put a normal socket in?
For a couple of mm extra length on the phone all those could have been
made normal size.

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On 7 May, 17:58, Peter <occassionally-confu...@nospam.co.uk> wrote:
> AJ <b33...@hotmail.com> wrote

> What about using it in the car? There appears to be no hands free kit
> for this phone - I had a good look the other day and agree it feels
> OK.

I bought a Nokia bluetooth kit a couple of years ago and i'm presuming
it will work OK with that but i've not tried it yet. I really thing
bluetooth is the way to go for car kits - the parrot ones look good
for about £100 fitted.

Transfer of contacts from a 6310i was not as easy as i'd hoped -
although the 6310i can be backed up by the latest pc suite it doesnt
seem possible to transfer the contacts to the 6300.

In fact PC Suite still seems unintuitive and difficult to use - it
kept reinstating contacts i'd deleted and creating duplicates. in the
end i dumped my Outlook contacts to the phone and spent an hour
deleting the couple of hundred (40%) i don't want on the phone
manually (from the phone rather than pc suite).

b33k34@hotmail.com declared for all the world to hear...
> On 7 May, 17:58, Peter <occassionally-confu...@nospam.co.uk> wrote:
> > AJ <b33...@hotmail.com> wrote
>
> > What about using it in the car? There appears to be no hands free kit
> > for this phone - I had a good look the other day and agree it feels
> > OK.
>
> I bought a Nokia bluetooth kit a couple of years ago and i'm presuming
> it will work OK with that but i've not tried it yet. I really thing
> bluetooth is the way to go for car kits - the parrot ones look good
> for about =A3100 fitted.
>
> Transfer of contacts from a 6310i was not as easy as i'd hoped -
> although the 6310i can be backed up by the latest pc suite it doesnt
> seem possible to transfer the contacts to the 6300.

A backup cannot be "restored" to a different model. What you needed to
do was sychronise your 6310i with outlook, and then sync outlook to your
6300.
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Regards
Jon

On 9 May, 07:24, Jon <s...@jonparker.plus.com> wrote:
> b33...@hotmail.com declared for all the world to hear...

> A backup cannot be "restored" to a different model. What you needed to
> do was sychronise your 6310i with outlook, and then sync outlook to your
> 6300.

sure, but i had massively fewer contacts on my 6310 than in OUtlook
and wanted to keep it that way. I thought there would be some way to
'save' the contacts info and reload it (not necessarily as a backup).
It's a bit damn stupid that nokia don't make it easier to migrate from
one of their phones to another.

b33k34@hotmail.com declared for all the world to hear...
> On 9 May, 07:24, Jon <s...@jonparker.plus.com> wrote:
> > b33...@hotmail.com declared for all the world to hear...
>
> > A backup cannot be "restored" to a different model. What you needed to
> > do was sychronise your 6310i with outlook, and then sync outlook to your
> > 6300.
>
> sure, but i had massively fewer contacts on my 6310 than in OUtlook
> and wanted to keep it that way. I thought there would be some way to
> 'save' the contacts info and reload it (not necessarily as a backup).
> It's a bit damn stupid that nokia don't make it easier to migrate from
> one of their phones to another.

Could have created a new outlook data file for the syncing, but I guess
it's too late now if you've intermingled them.

Or at a push, exported your current contacts to a file and then deleted
them, leaving outlook "empty" for you to play with.
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Regards
Jon