Oh, I have a phone issue: I had all my phone numbers and stuff stored in my old phone, not in the SIM card, which made it a PITA to transfer. So now I'm putting them into the card, but it looks like if I have them in the new phone, I can attach photos to the phone book entries, which would be so fun! But would mean a new PITA when I get a new phone someday. I can't decide which to do. Any opinions?

how long does it take for the Ipod Updater? It's been 20-30 minutes already.

I said fuck it and unplugged it.

Jesse, if you have faith that you'll be upgrading rather than breaking for your next phone, just keep them on the phone for now. There should be a setting somewhere that lets you "copy all" to the SIM card for transferring to your next phone.

LeN, that's what I ended up doing, and stuff seems okay.

D-at least on my phone, you can't store photos (and other extended information) on the SIM so copy all isn't a complete solution.

I synch to my Mac, but I think there may be a Motorola-specific solution that involves a cable.

D-at least on my phone, you can't store photos (and other extended information) on the SIM so copy all isn't a complete solution.

Oh, I know. The SIM card also doesn't let you store multiple numbers for one contact and stuff like that (it copies from the phone to the sim card as Mother1, Mother2, Mother3 and so forth) But it lets you have the pictures NOW, and then still have the phone numbers when you switch. Better than nothing.

If you can sync the phone address book to the computer somehow, that's definitely a better overall solution. 's what I do, but I know many phone users don't want to bother with that.

I thought Jesse's question was about having to redo the pictures, so the SIM card doesn't fix that effort.

Jesse, thing is, unless your next phone is a RAZR, the phone entries might not even be compatible. So the photos will probably need to be redone anyway.

RAZR backup software.

I was actually wondering about having to redo the numbers, not the pictures. There apparently wasn't a copy-all-to-SIM feature on my old phone. Eh. I'll just do it piecemeal, I guess -- if I actually have a picture or whatever I want to put with a number, I'll put that one on the phone. It's not like I'm getting a new phone anytime soon.

The SIM card also doesn't let you store multiple numbers for one contact and stuff like that (it copies from the phone to the sim card as Mother1, Mother2, Mother3 and so forth)

I can't decide if that bugs me -- I might like labeling the work number, say.

It's hard having new things!!

If I have a Mac, how can I go about playing .avi files?

Signed,

Is clueless

For those of you with Palm OS have you tried TCPMP? It's a free open source media player that's supposed to play pretty much anything.