Help Upgrading to an HTC EVO, I need my contacts!

[tundrawolf]

Hello,

I had an 8530 BlackBerry Curve. It was my 5th one so I upgraded to an HTC EVO. A neat phone to be sure.

All 860 of my contacts that were on the BB8530 before it met its end on the ground. But, I synced the contacts somewhat regularly, so I have a BB backup file IPD that has the contacts.

Except, without the BB, it seems there are no export options.

MagicBerry is a neat program, but I can only export one contact at a time.
ABC Amber is also a good program, but I have the same problem.

I put the IPD file on a thumbdrive and took it to Sprint, where they were able to transfer 50 of the 860 contacts with their machine. I tried multiple IPD files, and the lady tried multiple times.

Are all BlackBerry users screwed (RIMed?) out of their contacts if they choose to upgrade to a phone that is actually intuitive?

Help!

 

[stymie]

I had the 8530I before going to the HTC Hero when it launched in 09. I already had a gmail account and I remember there was a gmail app for blackberry. I transfered all my contacts from the phone to my gmail account. I did this just so I could have some sort of back up. I had no idea that as soon as I signed in on the hero that all my contacts would load automatically. I had over 500 contacts at the time so I accidentally saved myself a lot of headache by doing that.

Gmail for mobile

 

[tundrawolf]

I had 5 gmail accounts in the 8530, but unfortunately for me the BB8530 never synced more than a handful of contacts no matter what I tried. Plus, the BB8530 is Kaput. All I have left is a backup IPD file.