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I recently bought an HTC 8s Windows 8 Phone. I have all my contacts in a .vcf file.

How do I use this file and import contacts from it to my phone ?

I have read this post : Import contacts from vcf file to Windows 7.5 Mango but didn't find it helpful for Windows 8 Phone.

Please share some ideas on this. Thanks.

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Have you tried send to you as an email attachment and open it? As far as I know WP8 uses vcf as one of many sharing methods. – Vitor Canova♦ Jan 10 at 23:46
this is not helpful. i use vcards with nice pictures and my previous android imports nicely. when i changed to a windows phone (thinking that it will better work with windows environment) a simple task like this is taking years. really frustrated with this. if i upload it to hotmail/outlook it removes my pictures. really troubled user. – alin Apr 19 at 20:02

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The answer is the same as for Windows Phone 7. You cannot import directly from this file to the phone, but you can import the contacts to your linked email account and then they will be synced down onto the phone.

What kind of email account do you use on the phone? Gmail can import a vcf file directly, but hotmail will make you convert it to a csv file first.

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