Originally Posted by
gfunkdave
Haven't seen an AARP phone. I suggested she port her number to Consumer Cellular (phone service for old people basically) and she wanted to stay on our Verizon family plan. We wound up getting her the Alcatel yesterday. It actually runs a stripped-down version of Android. Seems to be fine fer her needs but Verizon has removed the options to mass import contacts, either by syncing with an online service or by just importing them via the SD card or whatnot. THose menu options appear in the T-mobile version of the phone but not in Verizon's. So she has to manually re-add all her phone numbers. Also the Alcatel only supports "mobile" phone numbers in its address book. You can add multiple numbers per contact but they all show as "Mobile Phone" and not Home/Work/Other.
I have found in the past that most carriers (only have experience with T-Mobile, Verizon, and Sprint) have a device in their stores that can export contacts from one device and import them into another device. At sprint I have done Nextel to Android, at T-Mobile it was Windows Mobile to both Android and iPhone, and at Verizon we have done Android <-> Android and Android <-> iPhone.
it's been a couple of years, but I would be surprised if they can't still do it.