How to Export Contacts From a Centro PDA to an iPhone

Move Contacts From Palm Centro To iPhone

The Palm Centro, which was first released in 2007, was one of the earliest members of Palm's line of smartphones. The Centro also functioned as a personal digital assistant, or PDA, and let users organize their email, address book and calendars. If you own an iPhone but want to transfer the address book from a Palm Centro, you can export the contact data from Palm Desktop, import it into Outlook and then sync it with iTunes.

Things You'll Need

• PC running Windows XP or later
• Microsoft Outlook 2003 or later
• iTunes 10 or later
• iPhone USB cable

Instructions

1. Launch the Palm Desktop application from the "All Programs" section of the Start menu.

2. Go to the "Address" tab, open the "File" menu and choose "Export."

3. Enter "Contacts" as the file name and set the "Export type" to "Comma Separated Values."

4. Set the "Range" option to "All," click "Export" and then hit "OK" twice to save the Palm Centro contact data.

5. Open the "Contacts.csv" file you just exported in Excel or another spreadsheet file and add headers to the top of each column to describe the type of data it contains.

6. Open Outlook, go to the "File" menu and choose "Import and Export."

7. Highlight the "Import from another program or file" option and press "Next."

8. Select "Comma Separated Values" from the list of file types and press "Next" again.

9. Press the "Browse" button, navigate to the "My Documents" folder and double-click on the "Contacts.csv" file. Then press "Next" again.

10. Choose the "Contacts" folder as the destination and press "Next" and "Finish" to import the Palm Centro data.

11. Connect your iPhone to your computer using an iPhone USB cable and wait for iTunes to sync the new contact data with your iPhone.

References

• Microsoft Support: How to import the Address Book From Palm Desktop to Outlook
• Apple Support: Syncing With iTunes