In the past few months I’ve had to migrate from a Nokia 7610 to a Nokia 6680, and then again from a Nokia 7610 to a Nokia 6630. Having had to change phones so many times, I wanted to try Nokia’s little Data Mover that comes with the new Series 60 phones.
The move to the 6680 was a charm. Basically, everything moved, I didn’t suffer any duplications, everything was set the way I had set it on my 7610. I don’t recall what I did with my Lifeblog data, though, so I don’t know if Lifeblog behaved during the transfer.
But, hey, it was easy to do – start the app, transfer part of it to the old phone, transfer patiently, and that’s it.
I just want to mention that it didn’t go so well when I went from the 7610 to the 6630. first of all, I wanted to go from the 6680 to the 6630, but the Data Mover didn’t work I think Data Mover is a one time deal and might prevent moving data to a next phone. Not smart if I am going to want to move my data to an even newer phone.
So I had to uninstall the little Data Mover app from my old 7610 and do the process all over again with the 6630. Turns out the 6630 transfers less stuff than the Data Mover on the 6680, so obviously there was some evolution of the app in the mean time (the 6630 came out before the 6680). But, that also meant that the experience wasn’t the same. And when I did transfer, it was a mess, since the Lifeblog thumbnails and such confused the whole issue.
Sigh.
At least I know that this nifty little data mover app is getting better and better. Indeed, with all the data we are starting to carry on our phones, upgrading and moving all personal data should be painless. Data Mover is certainly on the way to making it completely painless.
