Summary
Sidephone is designed to replace your existing dumbphone with clearer calling, better texting, more tools, and a modular programmable physical keypad that you can tailor to your habits and current activities.
Start by moving your SIM, bringing over contacts, and customizing a few buttons so that Sidephone is immediately personalized to you.
Sidephone has a touch screen display with an on-screen keyboard enabled by default. You can change to TT9 or JakeType predictive text entry at any time to replace the on-screen keyboard with methods that leverage Sidephone's physical buttons.
Steps
Making Sidephone your primary device
Complete Sidephone's initial setup using the Quick Start Guide or Step by Step Start Guide
Power off your dumbphone and remove its SIM
Insert your SIM into Sidephone and power it on
Confirm you have signal and can place a test call
If you have any issues connecting to your existing carrier, or find that their support is not well equipped to troubleshoot Sidephone hardware, Sidephone offers in-house mobile plans that may be a better fit.
Bring over what matters most
Export contacts from your dumbphone as a .vcf file
Send the .vcf file to Sidephone using LocalSend (or another file transfer method)
Open the file on Sidephone and import your contacts
Tip: Sidephone's JakeType predictive software will predict names in your contact book that may not have otherwise been saved in the dictionary. This is a feature that can be enabled / disabled in Settings.
Customize the keypad to your liking
Open Settings → Key Mapping
Map a key to a particular action
Take advantage of what Sidephone does better
If you are upgrading from a device like the Punkt MP.02 or HMD Barbie Phone, consider installing Maps from the App Library for navigation
If you are using the Compact QWERTY, install JakeType to operate the keypad
Swap keypads to match your current activities