Palm P121VZW User Guide - Page 44

Data transfer overview While you have many options for transferring data, Palm recommends that you take advantage of the Palm® Synergy™ feature by putting your data in an online account-for example, if you don't have a Google account, we recommend that you create one and store your data there (see How do I add names and other info into Contacts?, How do I get events into Calendar?, and How do I send and receive email on my phone?). If you don't want to sync with an online account, there are other ways to get data on your phone. See I'd rather sync directly with my computer. Consider carefully whether you'll want to be able to access and change your data somewhere besides your phone. If you do, do you prefer the other means of access to be a website (for example, Google), or to be software that is installed on your computer? In either case, you can set things up so that you can synchronize new or changed data between your phone and the other data location. You could also decide not to have a sync setup for your data, in which case you can use your Palm profile to back up your data (see Backup). You can't access this data anywhere but on your phone. However, your data is backed up, and in an emergency (such as a lost or stolen device), you can remove the data on your lost or stolen phone and restore it to a new Pixi Plus phone. How do I get data from my old phone? phone that you want to stop using? You can do a one-time, one-way export of data to your Pixi Plus phone, and then if you choose to, use the Synergy feature to sync the data to Google or Exchange. 1 On your computer, set up an account on the Google website (go to gmail.com) or with Microsoft Exchange (speak to an IT person at your company). 2 Open Contacts on your Pixi Plus phone. 3 Enter your username and password for the Google or Exchange account. See Use Contacts for the first time. NOTE You don't have to go to Calendar to set up your account there-that's done automatically using the username and password you enter in Contacts. 4 Go to a Verizon Wireless store and ask a support agent for help in transferring data from your old phone. When you're ready to transfer data from your old phone, be sure to tell the agent which account to transfer the data to. How do I get data off my computer? Do you want to sync your personal information between your Pixi Plus phone and Google or Exchange, but first need to get your data out of an old 44 Chapter 3 : Transferring data Do you want to sync your personal information between your Pixi Plus phone and Google or Exchange, but first need to get the data out of a desktop app that you want to stop using? You can do a one-time, one-way export of data to your phone, and then if you choose to, sync the data to Google or Exchange.