Did something cool with my [Sony Ericsson T610][1] the other day. The little joystick was broken on it, had been for months actually, and I finally got tired of working around it and called [T-Mobile][2]. Turns out they replace handsets for free within the first 12 months. Cool!

So, got the new handset pretty quickly, swapped out SIM cards (I love [GSM][3]!) and viola, done. Wait! No, not done. Most of my contacts were not stored on the SIM card because I had chosen to sync the phone with my Outlook contacts. My phone came with some software called XTNDConnect which seemed to work fine, but my laptop doesn’t have Bluetooth so I had to use IR.

Well, IR is boring and backwards. It’s 2004, hey almost 2005, I must use Bluetooth! Plus the web rumor mill says XTNDConnect is as likely to wipe out your contacts in Outlook as it is to sync them to your phone. So, I enabled Bluetooth on my phone and iPaq and messed with the options. Turns out that you can select multiple contacts and send them via Bluetooth in Windows Mobile 2003. They make it a pain though, there is no “select all” option, so I had to click and drag down through 236 contacts.

Then I found another problem. My phone prompts to add every contact. I had to click “yes” two-hundred and thirty-six times. Ugh. I never found a way to disable that prompting.

Then I remembered that I had downloaded some ringtones and themes and such from [myt610.net][4]. It was a simple matter to push those files from my PC to iPaq to phone. There is a slightly better way, I can grab them via WAP, but I’ve pretty much determined WAP is slow and useless, and at $4.99 a month, while cheap, makes no sense for that added expense.

[1]: http://www.sonyericsson.com/t610/
[2]: http://www.tmobile.com
[3]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GSM
[4]: http://www.myt610.net/