Contacts software on PC?

[Guest a34mike]

I been out and changed our phones.

My wife now has a San Francisco (Blade), rooted and BladeVillian installed, using a Vodafone SIM. As a Vodafone ex-employee pensioner, I get this as a staff account and as she only uses about £6 of calls a month this is the best way for her to have an up-to-date phone.

Myself, as I spend a lot on calls, I have an HTC Desire, also on Vodafone but on contract as that's cheaper for me.

The issue I have is entering all the info for contacts on the phone. On our old phones (Nokia 5800) had software on the PC to edit all our contacts. But I don't seem to be able to do this on the Androids.

Can anyone point me in the direction of some software that will allow me to connect the phone via the USB and then edit our contacts? It may mean exporting all our contact as vCards to the SD card and then tranferring (bit of a bind but that may be necessary) then editing these with the PC. Or there may be some software that allows it to be done direct.

As a 'Nooby' to the world of Android phones, I love the phone but am struggling with a few bits.

Any advice anyone?

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[Guest T3KO]

You can just add the contacts to your gmail account so it snycs with the Blade.

[Guest RickD]

i had this issue because my wife hated her Samsung Wave.

What i did was to Output from the Wave into outlook. Then make any changes in outlook. You could also use the windows address book I think.

Once thats done, I exported out of Outlook as a CSV, and uploaded that to the Googlemail account.

They then sync to the phone.

[Guest a34mike]

You can just add the contacts to your gmail account so it snycs with the Blade.

Thanks T3KO and RickD for the responses. I'd previously discounted syncing with my gmail account as it didn't appear to have much by way of options. However, having done a couple of complete contacts in the phone and tried the sync to gmail, I now have what I was expecting.

I looked at the idea of syncing with outlook, but what swayed me to go the gmail route was that the default pic size is 96x96 on gmail and around 70x70 on outlook. There does seem a way to alter outlook to do larger pics, but the default Google/Android way seems easier.

I was looking at seeing if there were alternative contacts apps, but as I can now do all my contact editing in gmail, I think I'll stay with whats there.

Thanks for the responses.

[Guest richardop]

MyPhoneExplorer can export/import contacts to vCards over wifi/USB on Android, and it's free.