How to Transfer Your Contacts from iPhone to Android

Many people are switching from iPhone to Android these days (and yes, some people are switching the other way, although not as many).

That’s why a lot of people are trying to find the best way to switch contacts from one device to the other. Today, I’m going to show you how to quickly and easily switch your contacts from iOS7 to Android.

What you need:

-An Android

-An iPhone running iOS7

-A Google account, which you’ll need anyway for your new Android

Step 1) Grab your iPhone and go to the Settings menu. Click Mail, Contacts, Calendars.

Step 2) Click Add Account and find Gmail under the list of providers. Enter your Google account username and password

Step 3) Toggle all of the aspects of your Google account you’d like to sync. By default, the Contact option will be toggled off, but we’ll obviously want to turn that on for the purpose of this exercise. The toggle will glow green if you successfully toggled it on.

Step 4) Your iPhone will upload Contact information (and whatever other toggles you selected) to your Google account over the next few minutes. If you’re super popular and have lots of contacts, then your contact information could take some time to be completely shared.

Step 5) Check your Contact sharing is complete by going to this URL: https://www.google.com/contacts

Step 6) Log into your Android with your Google account and watch your Contacts magically appear. How easy was that?

Remember the olden days when you had to manually switch each and every contact between phones? Remember when you could pay your carrier a “transfer fee” to switch your information to a new flip phone. You can relax now: those days are far in the past.


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#ImWired Management

What if Microsoft gave up on devices and went all in on services for iPhones and iPads?

Right now Apple makes money on their own devices like the iPhone and iPad, Google makes money on the advertising attached to services for everyone, and Microsoft struggles for breath somewhere in between. What if Microsoft decided to cede the device market and become a full-on competitor to Google in the services space? What if they leveraged their cloud-savvy to provide a true online alternative for iPad and iPhone users, and maybe even Android (AOSP) as well? Ben Thompson writing for Statechery:

"Apple makes money when you buy devices, and they differentiate those devices by making their own operating system. This incentivizes them to make the best devices and best operating system, and, in my opinion, they do   

Google makes money when you access their services. This incentivizes them to make their services available, with the best possible implementation, everywhere, regardless of device. And, in my opinion, they do"

In this context, Microsoft is divided against itself, licensing Exchange — and maybe even bringing Office to iPad to help services but hurt Windows Phone, keeping Halo on mobile exclusive to help Windows but hurt software sales revenue. Read Thompsons's piece, and then come back here and let me know — would you rather Microsoft go all in on devices against Apple, all in on services against Google, or continue to try and do both?


With Regards,
#ImWired Management