How to transfer contacts to the Cricket MSGM8 II (ZTE A310) phonebook?

I have 300+ contacts in Outlook that I previously accessed on a BlackBerry via a BES (BlackBerry Enterprise Server) at my previous employer. I now have a Cricket MSGM8 II (ZTE A310) & need to get these contacts in the MSGM8’s phonebook. I will export the contacts to a compatible format, once I can access the phone from my PC.

The MSGM8 II has a mini-USB port for charging & I believe for data, but BitPim doesn’t list the phone & when I installed the latest version, it didn’t detect my phone. The MSGM8 II was type accepted very recently, I believe late July of this year (2010).

Windows detects the phone as “Qualcomm CDMA Technologies MSM”, but doesn’t locate a suitable driver.

I sure don’t want to manually enter 300+ phonebook entries. Anyone have an idea of how to proceed?

~Dave

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You might be able to use the "MyBackup" service if it's part of your plan. Once you've set it up, you can edit contacts from your account online. I don't know for sure if you can bulk add there since i just set my own up. But it should let you download an edited list to the phone, or what point in having it?

Yeah, I use the My Backup, but that's not what I wanted. I've manually entered many of the numbers, but would still like to add the rest.

Also, there's no way to get pictures off of this phone but using Bluetooth. I just can't believe that you can't use the mini USB port on this phone for data.

It lets you import contacts exported as a file from Outlook, Outlook Express and a few others.

I sorted out the driver issue.
Here is the driver for the phone, and it works just fine.

A100_USB_V1.0.811 drivers.zip - 4shared.com - online file sharing and storage - download

The problem is, that once it is installed, I do not know how to get my data off of my phone...
Any one?