Mrs has got herself a Galaxy Note -Carphone Warehouse £21pm.

She has a iPhone 3Gs and I cannot get all of the contacts out of it -it only seems to export 10 of the 67 contacts -I have tried using iTunes to create contacts file and syncing with Google. It looks like it's doing it but it will only save out the 10 contacts -as far as I can tell she doesn't have any groups or anything like that.

Any ideas or will she just have to put them all in manually?

are they on the sim or phone, might not sync if there split.

also if your on orange try a free app called "backup"

Can't you send them via bluetooth? or if you have a spare SIM via MMS.

I seem to recall emailing all mine to myself. Bit time consuming, but it worked.

Yes I've been able to send contacts on at a time via email etc. Good point about contacts being on SIM -I didn't think of that -I shall check. iPhone is on 02 by the way.

Thanks for the suggestions -I'll keep trying.

If you are using a Mac and sync your contacts they will end up in Address Book, from here you can export any selected (or all) contacts in VCard format, you should then be able to import this format file into another contact or address book application.

On a PC your contacts will sync (via ITunes) into Outlook, Outlook Express, Windows Addressbook or Windows contacts and you should be able to export them from there.

If you are syncing via iCloud then you sync your phone and the contacts will sync via iCloud to the computer(s) you have chosen to sync with, PC or Mac and you can then export the contacts from the contact/address book application on your computer.

Been using her netbook -Windows 7. It all sycs with iCloud. I can see all the contacts there, but when I try and select all contacts and do an export -it goes through the motions but I still only get 10 contacts, maybe I shall have to try doing them in small groups or something and one problem contact is throwing it all out or maybe the computer that we are doing it on although I'd have thought that's all done on Apple's servers if doing it via iCloud.

If you setup a gmail account up through exchange on the iphone it should upload them all to gmail's contacts. You must be able to get them onto android then.

If you setup a gmail account up through exchange on the iphone it should upload them all to gmail's contacts. You must be able to get them onto android then.

good idea. if this is your/her first Android you will need a Gmail account to access the market place anyway to download apps

If you're really bothered and don't want a load of hassle, just take it into Apple and they'll do it for you.

Thanks for all the responses.

I finally mamnaged to it.

I've had Android for a couple of years so know my way round Gmail and that - Apple iPhone is another story - I'd almost think that they deliberately make them not play nice with anything else.

First thing I tried was sync. iCloud to Gmail -went through the steps and it said it was doing it but nothing happened.

What finally did work was:

From iCloud save contacts as a file -open this with Windows Contacts, save and close. Then open saved contacts with Outlook and do an export to vcf and then import with Samsung Kies -once contacts on phone share with Google.

If you're really bothered and don't want a load of hassle, just take it into Apple and they'll do it for you.

I doubt they would do that