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Re: Simple phone with gMail address book

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Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> wrote:
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> I don't care about any of the stuff I didn't mention. I'll worry about
> how I pay after I find I find the right phone. All I want is a
> featureless phone to which I can transfer a gMail address book. I
> definitely don't want to use the phone for mail or browsing, just cell
> phone calls and text messages. It does need a USB data connection to
> my computer and a supplied computer program that allows updates to the
> phone's contacts.

  I think that if a 'feature phone' has a USB connection for *data* -
i.e. not just for charging - it will come with such software.

  So I advise to search for a phone of your liking and the download the
documentation to see if it comes with such software.

> Ideally the phone would update its address book from my gMail account
> when it was plugged in to my computer via USB but that does not need
> to be automatic. I don't mind exporting the gMail address book and
> reformatting it to suit the Windows software supplied with the phone. 

  Assuming Gmail can export its address book (in another response you
hinted that it can do that) and that you are indeed willing to reformat
the exported Gmail address book to a format which suits the software of
the phone, I think that's quite doable.

  Case in point: I have a Telstra/ZTE T95 [1] 'feature phone' and that
comes with the "Join Me" software, which can import an address book (the
phone/software uses the term "Contacts") in CSV or Outlook format.
"Contacts"),

  So this phone can do what you want, but since it's 2G/3G only, it
probably doesn't meet your "it needs to be compatible with the latest
mobile phone standards" requirement, assuming that means (also) '4G' and
assoiciated frequency bands.

[1] Before that, I had a Telstra/ZTE T6, also with Join Me. AFAIK, the
Telstra/ZTE T95 is the T95 replacement.

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Simple phone with gMail address book Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2016-10-01 16:36 +1000
  Re: Simple phone with gMail address book "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-10-01 07:30 +0000
    Re: Simple phone with gMail address book Adrian Caspersz <email@here.invalid> - 2016-10-01 09:23 +0100
      Re: Simple phone with gMail address book "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-10-01 08:57 +0000
    Re: Simple phone with gMail address book Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2016-10-01 20:24 +1000
      Re: Simple phone with gMail address book "Jeff Gaines" <jgaines_newsid@yahoo.co.uk> - 2016-10-01 12:35 +0000
  Re: Simple phone with gMail address book Whiskers <catwheezel@operamail.com> - 2016-10-01 12:47 +0100
    Re: Simple phone with gMail address book Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2016-10-02 01:46 +1000
  Re: Simple phone with gMail address book VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-10-01 12:52 -0500
    Re: Simple phone with gMail address book Gordon Levi <gordon@address.invalid> - 2016-10-02 15:55 +1100
      Re: Simple phone with gMail address book VanguardLH <V@nguard.LH> - 2016-10-02 02:18 -0500
      Re: Simple phone with gMail address book Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2016-10-02 17:57 +0000

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