# Cell Phone-Book Dnld/Upld Utility: Recommendation?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-book-dnld-upld-utility-recommendation/636072>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 27, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-book-dnld-upld-utility-recommendation/636072 "2012-09-27T23:04:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![phxjcc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phxjcc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phxjcc)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-book-dnld-upld-utility-recommendation/636072/1 "2012-09-27T23:04:38Z")

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Last time I changed phones I bought a nice piece of S/W that uploaded the phone book to my PC and then I could edit it in Excel and dnld to the new phone. It came with a USB connector and all of the _dongles_ for all the types of phone connectors.

A co-worker “borrowed” [ahem] it and it has now grown legs.

I can’t seem to find this on the net.

Anyone use/have a recommendation for such a utility?

Thanks!

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**Author:** ![Kiwi\_Fruit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kiwi_fruit/32/12_2.png) [@Kiwi\_Fruit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiwi_Fruit)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2012, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-book-dnld-upld-utility-recommendation/636072/2 "2012-09-27T23:54:55Z")

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An Android phone doesn’t really need that. It will get your contacts list from your Gmail account, and any other accounts you synchronise with. It means not relying on the phone memory but getting stuff from the cloud. A good thing? Probably, if you want your devices to keep updated with changes you make in other accounts.

When I changed from my non-smartphone LG to a Motorola Defy (Android 2.2), I did upload its contacts to my PC, but found I didn’t need to do that to keep my contacts.

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**Author:** ![phxjcc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phxjcc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phxjcc)\
**Post date:** [October 2, 2012, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-book-dnld-upld-utility-recommendation/636072/3 "2012-10-02T08:40:13Z")

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Bump. Because my new phone arrives tomorrow.

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**Author:** ![phxjcc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8491ac/32.png) [@phxjcc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/phxjcc)\
**Post date:** [October 6, 2012, 6:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cell-phone-book-dnld-upld-utility-recommendation/636072/4 "2012-10-06T06:01:00Z")

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Mods: You can kill this thread.

The answer is: Data Pilot.