Jan-Piet Mens

In spite of my loathing of anything with this label on it, I spent half the weekend helping a dear friend move her contacts from a broken CX65 to a new SL75. [How on Earth can one buy one of those devices now?]

Getting the contacts off the CX65 with the old Mobile Phone Manager (MPM) software was no problem, and I quickly had a CSV file with all contact details in it. Then came the business of connecting the new SL75 via Bluetooth to her PC. To cut a long story short, that failed miserably (of course), and I resorted to using my own laptop, on which the damn MPM software failed to find its own phone.

Since I had above said CSV file, I twisted that into Windows Address Book and then used the OBEX Synchronization profile of the Widcomm BT-stack to get the data back onto that little pink bit 'o hardware.

All in all, a horrendous waste of time, but the pleasant dinner (and the laughs at the expense of the manufacturer) made up for it.

And a warning to all of my friends: don't call me if you have a problem with a BenQ/Siemens mobile phone, unless you want to be put on the list of my ex-friends.