824897 - Allow import of contacts from SD card

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 838121

(Firefox OS Graveyard :: Gaia::Contacts, enhancement)

Description

[Mark Hammond [:markh] [:mhammond]]

My android gingerbread device has a "people" app (instead of the more common "contacts" app).  This app allows exporting of contacts to the SD card but *not* to the SIM card.  Thus, it was very difficult for me to import my contacts (I had to find a 3rd party app which allows the export to the SIM card).

It would be ideal if importing from an android SD card export was supported.

Comment 1

[Robert Kaiser]

From my N9 or N900, I also can only export contacts to a VCard file (and not to the SIM card, presumably because the SIM card doesn't support the rich contact cards used nowadays, as it only knows a length-restricted name field associated with a phone number), or send them via Bluetooth/SMS (the N9 also via NFC), which probably also uses VCard format.
Would be great to have some way to import/receive those to be able to actually exchange those rich modern contact card that FxOS also supports. Note that bug 823492 is filed on the Bluetooth functionality of this.

Comment 2

[Chris Lord [:cwiiis]]

Sounds like a duplicate to me. Apologies if I'm incorrect.