you can either plug it in on your computer and copy them over or bestbuy has machines that allow them to do that for you right there in the store, when we got my son his evo they coppied his contacts directly from his previous HTC phone directly into his EVO. they copied pictures, contacts, and everything and it only took a few minutes to do. if you have an Android phone you can go to gmail and create contacts there for people and when you sync your phone with your gmail account all of those contacts will automatically show up on your phone too. that will also happen all over again any time you add or remove someone from your gmail contacts. Hope this helps answer your question properly