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How to get a vCard file onto an iPhone

Here's a little off topic post which isn't Pixaria related but might be of use to other people so I thought I'd share it here. It follows a call for help I had from a friend setting up an iPhone on Windows. The issue was that he was having lots of problems importing a vCard file (vcf) exported from an LG Viewty into Outlook so that the contacts inside it could be synchronised with his new iPhone.

If you're a new iPhone user on Windows, it's possible that you will run into problems if you try to import a vCard file containing multiple contacts from your old phone into Microsoft Outlook. This is due to Outlook's notoriously weak support for the vCard format which means that it will only recognise the first contact in the file. If your old phone contained hundreds of contacts and you don't want to manually re-enter them on the new one, this can be a major headache...

Fortunately, there is an easy way to bypass this issue and all you need is the vCard file e.g. mycontacts.vcf and an e-mail account such as Gmail set up on your iPhone.

Thanks to the iPhone's excellent vCard support, you can import the contacts directly onto your iPhone by e-mailing the vCard file (as an attachment) to an account that can be accessed directly on your iPhone. When you open the vCard attachment, you will be prompted to save the contacts to your address book and hey presto, you're done.

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