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Google contacts and SIM card sync

With SIM Manager you can copy the contacts from your SIM card to your Google account and vice-versa.

Google contacts on a SIM card

To do so, use the "Get contacts from Google" feature.

Copy Google contacts to SIM card


Once you enter your username and password, the contacts will be retrieved.

Google account login in SIM Manager

SIM Manager will copy the following address book details from Google:

  • Name
  • Second name
  • Phone
  • Additional Phone
  • Category
  • E-mail
  • Group

You can write Google contacts to a SIM card, multiple cards or save them to a file for later use.

To upload contacts from a SIM card to Google, select the address book entries, right-click and choose "Send contacts to Google".

Send address book from SIM card to Google contacts

Here you can see the SIM card address book in Google contacts:

SIM card address book seen in Google contacts

Naturally, you can do this with a SIM and a USIM, since SIM Manager supports both 2G and 3G SIM cards.

Future versions of SIM Manager will add the possibility to synchronize SIM card address books with Yahoo Contacts, Nokia Ovi and other similar services.

The program has many other interesting features, such as the SMS recovery or clear SIM contacts.

SIM Manager requires a PC/SC compliant SIM card reader, you can choose one from this list.

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SIM Explorer 1.3

SIM Explorer program icon

SIM Explorer 1.3 is going to be released this week. There are several important details that are worth mentioning:

  • The program can is now available in demo mode, upon request. To obtain a copy of SIM Explorer for testing purposes, just contact the support department and explain in a few words why you want the software; The following limitations apply:
    • Full SIM card scan is disabled, i.e. you can only scan by template (the program will show only the most common files on the card);
    • You cannot save the results of the scan to a file;
    • The card cannot be modified, it is available in read-only mode.
  • The new version has an improved full scan algorithm, which is a bit faster than the previous one;
  • There are several bug-fixes as well;
  • An automatic update checker is now available too.

The next version will come with enhancements related to RUIM (CDMA) cards.

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