Another major and majorly egregious omission from the iPhone’s basic features is the ability to just copy your contacts off of your SIM and straight into the iPhone’s directory. Conversely, if you’ve added a lot of contacts to your iPhone and want to upload them onto your SIM, you’re basically SOL.
Folk with Macs who keep their Address Book updated have no problem, as are Windows users who are equally as conscientious about it on Microsoft Outlook. But the poor iPhone newbies who do neither have to impose on their Mac/Windows friends to copy and upload their contacts, lest they do it painstakingly one by one.
Well, the same people that gave you Camera Pro have just released iSIM, which does what you’ve been looking for (and like Camera Pro, hold back the best features to make a quick buck before Apple includes those functions in a firmware update). Works OK, save for the fact that it’s as slow as molasses accessing the SIM card’s contacts; you’d think the iPhone had frozen. (If you get impatient, just lean on the Home button for a few seconds and it’ll kick you out of the app.)
Like Camera Pro, it’s much easier to screencap iSIM’s Welcome Screen than explain what it does:
Now available via Installer.
August 1st, 2008 at 10:31 am
Didn’t work with my tmobile SIM.