How to move contacts from Nokia phone to Android phone

Nokia E61i -> HTC Magic Android

I, who have been vociferously anti-touchscreen on cellphones, have been smitten. Roché had an HTC Magic lying around, and I decided to try it out, since I was due for an upgrade and had not yet made my mind up what I will choose for my next phone.

I'd heard of Android Google's OS for mobiles and we are huge Open Source fans, so I had to give it a go. If you ask the guys in the office, they will confirm that I am só enthusiastic about this phone, it is starting to irritate them ... :)

Anyway - I got the upgrade and am on my own Magic now. So I got almost everything sorted very easily, including Wireless Access at home and work, IMAP mail setup, Gmail setup ... easy-peasy!

Last thing was to get my contacts off my Nokia E61i onto the Magic. Tried to take it across via the SIM-card, but the SIM's capacity was too small to bring all of them with.

I copied all my contacts to my SD card in the Nokia, by:

1. Marking All my contacts
2. Select the Copy option and copying it to the SD card

I then connected to it from my laptop via USB cable and found the 'Contacts' folder in the 'Other' folder on the SD card.

I copied it to a folder on my laptop. In it was a .vcf file for every contact. So ... 'Google being my friend', I asked for advice from the community regarding getting .vcf contacts onto my Magic Android.

Various options and approaches were offered, but the one that caught my eye (cause I'm lazy) was Google Contacts as a way to keep your contacts synched. Some people seem concerned at the idea that Google has access to their contacts, but I doubt anybody there would be interested in my little black book. If they were, I would regard it a compliment, not a problem!

Upon going to my Gmail account going to Contacts and clicking on 'import' (top right) I found that only one .vcf file can be selected at a time to import - I had close on 300! How can I create one .vcf file from 300? Then I found a simple instruction in someone's post. Simple, if you are running Linux, that is:

1. Open a terminal.
2. Go to the folder where your 300 .vcf files are nestled.
3. Type cat *.vcf>contacts.vcf
4. Enter.

Voila! You will find one file called 'contacts.vcf' with 300 contacts inside, amongst the other files in the folder. I imported this file into my Google Contacts and a while later I decided I better try to get the synch going to get these contacts onto my phone. When I looked ... it was already there!

Ubuntu Linux is awesome, Android is awesome, Google's services are awesome, Open Source is awesome!