Transferring SIM contacts in Android

If you need to transfer contacts in Android, I recommend the free ’Contact2Sim’.

Android’s interesting, it lacks some features that on the iPhone are built in (the iPhone can natively transfer contacts from the SIM card), but unlike Apple, it exposes deep API hooks so someone can write an app to fill the hole.  In contrast, Apple only exposes a subset of the device’s capabilities, and often makes you wait before you can access new features (for example, the movie recording and Map widget API’s took a while).

This can be annoying on Android (while you wait for someone to make the app and fill the hole), but then it gives you a few options to choose from, and in the case of this feature, the app lets you transfer contacts *back* to the SIM card which is pretty sweet.  I don’t think the iPhone can do that.

Two different approaches, both equally valid I guess.

An aside:

I was talking with my mate Rhys yesterday over some Halo: Reach. He was discussing Windows7 phones and made the interesting observation, that with Windows7 you don’t just decide which OS you want, but you then have to decide between all the different offerings (Android is the same).  Contrast that to iPhone and you have to choose between 16GB or 32GB (and maybe, the previous version).  Certainly does make the choice easier.  Again, there are pro’s and cons…

The Windows Mobile 7 ‘Really?’ ad came up in conversation. Personally I think it’s a cool ad, and I do get their point, but at the same time I can’t help but think they are saying I should use my mobile less.  When actually I enjoy using it.