I bought the LG V last spring because I wanted to merge my Palm contacts onto a non-PDA phone. While I adapted to the PDA phones when they first came out, they didn’t really fit my usage. I use a PDA and phone in different ways and sometimes I use them at the same time, so convergence didn’t work as well for me as I had expected.

I looked for phone that could sync up with the Palm, and Verizon assured me this was the one. Well, not so simple. In fact, there is no direct sync. I bought some merge kit, which never worked. So for the past six months I haven’t taken time to mess with this and just let it slide. Yesterday, I thought I might do a little searching on the web to see who else had this problem.

Turns out the merge kit was a waste of money. I downloaded bitpim and eventually made contact with my phone (after following the instructions of a few other folks). I exported my Palm contacts to a text file. Then I imported that into Excel and created a csv file. Bitpim can import a csv file. It is supposed to import vCard files, but I was unsuccessful exporting my Palm stuff and importing via vCards.

Bitpim does seem a crash a lot (maybe I had too many contacts), but eventually I got it working. As I imported, it took me to a intermediary screen and I had to rename the columns using its pull-down menu. Until I notice that I kept clicking through that screen and getting an error. Anyway, I finally got the contacts on my phone and I am happy.