Well I brought the phone, I am now the owner of the new super slim w880i phone from Sony Ericsson.
My next challange was to get the contacts from my Windows Mobile 5 powered Orange SPV M3100, my initial thought was to use bluetooth and transfer all the contacts by selecting them all and sending them to the new phone.
- WM5 does not allow you to select more than one contact
- WM5 does not sync with a Mac without other software (Missing Sync)
- Will the w880i sync with the Mac, its not on the supported list for iSync
To get around this issue I had to resort to using a Microsoft Operating system, the steps involved were as follows
- Create a new user on the Windows Machine
- Install Outlook (full edition, came with the M3100
- Install ActiveSync
- Syncronise the M3100 with this Windows Machine
- Install the Sony Ericsson software for syncing the w880i
- Syncronise the w880i with the Windows Machine
Now I have a new phone with all my contacts on, this was now the time I returned to the Mac to get the phone syncronised and interacting with my main machine.
The phone 'Paired' with no issues but when I launced iSync the device w880i was not allowed to sync.
I went of in search for other people that had had a similar problem (I thought there must be more people in the same situation). The site I found is here, your phone may be listed or not, but its simple to follow the instructions and create a new profile to be placed in the /Library/PhoneProfiles directory on the mac, you can get my profile for the w880i from this zip file
Once I had installed the above file, I was able to use iSync to syncronise the w880i and my mac address book.
The last bit of the puzzle for me was to connect the Walkman phone to iTunes, I did this by using this piece of software iTuneMyWalkman
One last syncronisation of my various playlists and my new phone has all my contacts and my tunes on. I have now replaced my iPod nano and M3100 with this new w880i phone, a phone just larger than my iPod nano, but a lot smaller than the M3100.