Sending Contact Info Via BlackBerry

Remember the back in the day when you got your first PDA before the BlackBerry took over? One of the coolest things that you could do was “beam” contact information from your device via infra-red to someone else’s device. I believe that I read an article once that said business cards would go the way of the dinosaur. Well, that hasn’t exactly happened, but, being able to beam your adders book to everyone you met at networking events was pretty fun.

As we know, you can’t exactly beam your info to someone since there is no infra-red on the BlackBerry. However, there is a little known feature that easily allows you to exchange contact info with other BlackBerry users.

I know that some of you die-hard BlackBerry Addicts are saying that it is pretty easy to send contact info via a simple email, and truth be told, you are absolutely right. You wouldn’t believe, however, how many long time BlackBerry users don’t know that all you have to do to send contact info is send an email or a PIN message to the person that you want to give contact info to and select Attach Address from the thumb wheel scroll bar.

This is a pretty simple tip but keeps you from having to type all your info into an email and easily allows you to give one of your contact’s info to someone else that you know.

Written by Robb Dunewood on July 6th, 2006 with 7 comments.
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Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com d_fisher
#1. July 6th, 2006, at 2:07 PM.

I think your 2nd paragraph is missing some punctuation and has a few typos. Should read

As we know, you can’t exactly beam your info to someone since there is no infra-red on the BlackBerry. However, there is a little known feature that easily allows you to exchange contact info with other BlackBerry users.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Robb Dunewood
#2. July 6th, 2006, at 2:11 PM.

Good catch. That’s what I get for not using the usability statisctics in Wurd befur postin…

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Franklin Madison
#3. July 7th, 2006, at 8:12 AM.

Unfortunately, when you do attach the address to your email make sure you dont have anything you dont want someone to read in the “notes” section of the address, as that transfers also.

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#4. July 9th, 2006, at 10:30 PM.

But how about beaming an entire address book? Can I use bluetooth? How about memos?

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Dunc
#5. July 16th, 2006, at 6:39 PM.

I’ve just moved from a mobile to a BB but miss the ability to send a contact to another person by SMS - or can you and I haven’t figured it out yet?

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com David Leitner
#6. January 9th, 2008, at 8:51 PM.

I changed companies and need to transfer my address book (mostly personal numbers) from one Curve to a newer edition of a Curve. How do I do this with Bluetooth - can I move the entire thing over? The numbers are not on the sim card and the phone number has changed. Thanks for your help.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com a brady
#7. May 2nd, 2008, at 2:34 PM.

How can I send business card to a standard phone? As not all my clients have BB thanks

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