About the Data Transfer Assistant (DTA)

The DTA enables you to do a one-time, one-way export of data from selected desktop apps to your HP Pre3 through the USB cable included with your smartphone. After the data is on your smartphone, you can select the account you want to import the data to.

IMPORTANT The DTA is not synchronisation software. It is meant to be used once per desktop app to export your info from the desktop app to an account on your smartphone.

These are the desktop apps that the DTA works with and the data that the DTA transfers to your smartphone:

Table 3. DTA: application data transferred

Operating

Desktop

Contacts

Calendar

Tasks/

Memos/

System

application

 

 

To dos

Notes

 

 

 

 

 

 

Windows XP

Outlook

√

√

√

√

or Vista® or

2003, 2007

 

 

 

 

Windows 7

or 2010

 

 

 

 

 

Palm

√

√

√

√

 

Desktop

 

 

 

 

Mac OS

Address

√

 

 

 

10.5Book

iCal

√

√

Note the following:

•If you use a desktop organiser that is not listed in the table, go to hpwebos.com/migrate-webOSand click the link for transferring Contacts/Calendar data from "somewhere else".

•Depending on the amount of data you are transferring, it can take up to an hour to complete the transfer of your data.

•Do not use the DTA to transfer data from a copy of Outlook that is associated with Exchange ActiveSync, which wirelessly syncs data between your smartphone and an Exchange server (see Manage online accounts).

•The DTA is compatible with Palm Desktop versions 4.14e, 4.2, 6.2 and 6.22. If your version of Palm Desktop is not one of these, you can download version 6.2 for free from hpwebos.com/desktop. Install it, sync with your old Palm device and then use the DTA to transfer your data.

•If you use Palm Desktop on the Mac, you can export your contacts, calendar events and To do items into Address Book and iCal. Then use the DTA to transfer your data. For more information, go to hpwebos.com/migrate-webOS.

NOTE You cannot use the DTA to transfer Calendar and Contacts to a Yahoo! account. Instead, you must use the upload tool provided by Yahoo!. Data is transferred from your computer to Yahoo.com, and then from Yahoo.com to the smartphone. Data is not transferred from the smartphone to Yahoo!. For more information, go to hpwebos.com/migrate-webOS.

Sync your desktop organiser and your smartphone

If you want to continue using a desktop organiser to store your contacts, calendar events and tasks—iCal and Address Book on the Mac, or desktop Outlook® or Palm Desktop by ACCESS on Windows—you have two choices:

•Sync directly with your desktop organiser, avoiding the web completely.

•Sync your desktop organiser with Google on the web and then sync Google with your smartphone.

Both choices require you to use a third-party solution (sold separately). Go to hpwebos.com/sync-solutionsto see if there are third-party solutions available for your smartphone. If there are no solutions available for your smartphone, check with the developers of existing sync software for other webOS devices to see if they are developing a solution for your smartphone.

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