Missing phone contacts

i have just bought an i phone 4, in the shop the assistant transferred my Blackberry phone contacts from the sim to my i phone smaller sim card.
these telephone contacts are in my i phone somewhere, but i can't use them as every time i go to contacts the whole list of email contacts i have in outlook comes up and no phone numbers.
can anyone suggest anything or tell me something i'm not doing correctly?

The iPhone does not store contacts on the SIM card in any way. Contacts are saved in the Contact application and are designed to be synced to a supported application on your computer. Information about the supported applications is found in the User Guide.
You mention Outlook containing email addresses, it should also contain phone numbers as that is how they are designed to be stored, and Outlook is one of the supported applications I mentioned earlier. If the only part of your contacts saved from your Blackberry to your SIM were email, then therein lies the problem. You can, however, try and see if the shop you mentioned transferred your contacts to the mico SIM and select transferring contacts from the SIM to the iPhone. That is done in settings. Go to Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendar and select Import contacts from SIM. It all depends on how the transfer was done.

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Plug your iPhone into your computer using the USB cable that it came with.
Step 3
Right-click on "iPhone" on the left hand side of the iTunes window under the "Devices" column.
Step 4
Select "Restore From Backup" and choose the backup version to which you want to restore the iPhone from the list in the drop down menu.
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