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Chapter 1 Pre-Flight Checklist:What to Do Before YouGet Your Windows Phone
While adding single contacts at a time is pretty straightforward, it’s also monoto-
nous, so I want to focus on importing. After all, you probably have contacts else-
where, in an e-mail application (like Outlook), on a competing e-mail service like
Gmail or AOL, or on other online services such as Facebook or MySpace.
To import contacts, click the appropriate service or application. While the options
vary slightly depending on which one you pick, there are three basic types of integra-
tion here:
Facebook and MySpace: 3 Thanks to deep integration with Windows Live, Face-
book and MySpace contacts importing works quite differently from the other
choices. In fact, these services are so special that I’m going to examine them
separately in the next section, so hang tight. (Or skip ahead.)
Manual import: 3 Many of the other services, including LinkedIn, AOL Mail,
Hyves, Google (Gmail), Hi5, and Tagged require you to log on to that service
before you can import contacts. So when you select one of these options,
you’ll see a page created by that service where you can log on in order to
authorize the contacts copying. A typical screen of this type is shown in
Figure 1-9.
FIgure 1-9: Services such as Gmail require you to log on so
you can transfer information to Windows Live.
Outlook and another Windows Live account: 3 To import contacts from Micro-
soft’s corporate-oriented e-mail and personal information management appli-
cation, or from Windows Live, you will need to rst export them in a format
Windows Live can understand.
Windows Phone

works natively
only with online
accounts, like
Windows Live,
Gmail, and
Facebook. You will
not be able to sync
information from
a desktop e-mail
client like Outlook
to Windows Phone.
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