Updated: Never — Philip's Blog

I gave in and bought an HTC Hero phone this weekend. Everyone I know seems to be lyrical about it. It seems capable of making phone calls and all the features one would expect from a "smart" phone are there.

I am a bit disturbed by the amount of data the phone seems to want to share with Google though. So far, I have not been able to find a way of importing my contacts without going through GMail (which I don't use), short of typing them in by hand - an error-prone process I'm not willing to try. The phone does not appear to support vcard-over-bluetooth.

None of the people who have given me their phone number have allowed me to share this data with Google and I would prefer not to ask all of them.

So, dear Lazyweb: how do I import approximately 300 phone numbers into this Hero contraption?