Send Contacts from a Nokia Phone

Exchanging electronic business cards in meetings is not only cool, but also efficient and reliable.

Often, we need to send contacts from one phone to another to avoid retyping the information. For instance, if you meet someone in a conference hall, instead of typing his address on your phone keypad, you can ask him to send his electronic business card directly to your phone. Then, when you go home, you just send the card to your PC for backup.
Exchanging business cards via Bluetooth is great if you forget to bring a business card or run out of them at a meeting.

In your phone's Contacts application, just highlight or open the contact you want to send, and then select Options Send… on a Series 60 device or Options Send bus card on a Series 40 device. You can choose from several data connection options to send the business card.

The data transport options for sending business cards from the phone are as follows:

The "Via text message" option composes an SMS message containing the text contents of the business card. The SMS message can only be sent to another mobile phone with a valid phone number. The recipient can view the business card in the message Inbox and save it. But the thumbnail images are lost.

The "Via multimedia" option creates an MMS message with the business card encoded in a file attachment. The thumbnail image, if available, is included in the file. The message can be sent to a phone number or any email address.

The "Via e-mail" option is the same as the "Via multimedia" option, except that it can be sent only to an email account. But it does not incur the per-message service fee many operators charge for MMS messages.

The "Via Bluetooth" and "Via infrared" options beam the business cards, including the thumbnail images, to a nearby device. If the recipient is a Nokia device, you can follow the instructions for receiving a business card over Bluetooth from a Mac in "Transfer Contacts from a Computer". If the recipient is a PC or a Mac, the business card appears as an incoming file in .vcf format with embedded thumbnail data.

Bluejacking is a prank that uses Bluetooth to send images or messages disguised as business cards to strangers in a crowd. The Nokia Sensor application helps you identify potentially interesting people in a crowd.