Import contacts from blackberry to windows phone 7 & vice-versa

 

Many of us these days have our contacts spread all over the place: Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, Exchange, etc. It can be quite a pain.
Starting with Windows Phone 7, Windows Live will take a front and center role with the device, requiring you to use a Live ID to "sign in" on the phone to access your Xbox account, Zune profile, Hotmail/Live Mail, MSN Messenger, Phone Live, etc. This is quite similar to how an Android device requires a Google mail account, which also accesses all of Google's services.
One neat feature that will help simplify things is using Windows Live Contacts(http://contacts.live.com/), which will allow you to import your contacts from

• Microsoft Outlook
• Outlook Express
• Windows Contacts
• Windows Live Hotmail
• Yahoo! Mail (CSV)
• Gmail (CSV)

Those last two options are quite important for many of us and using the CSV export/import system is really quite easy (Gmail --> Contacts --> Export --> Outlook CSV). Likewise, the 'Add People' feature is quite nice, allowing digital import andconstant syncing between the following services:

• Facebook
• MySpace
• LinkedIn
• AOL Mail
• Google
• Outlook
• etc.

Finally, you can use the Manage --> 'Clean up contacts' option in Windows Live Contacts to find and delete duplicate information, saving a lot of time. Likewise you can use the 'Merge' feature if you have many lists to import.