Question about transferring contacts to iphone

Hi,
I just upgraded to 3g. My wife wants to try out my V1 iphone. All of her contacts and calendar are on a Samsung Blackjack II.
We are sharing the same PC and Itunes account.
I need to know how to remover the contacts from her Blackjack and sync them to the iphone.
She's not sure if she likes the iphone...... I know that if she has to manually enter her contacts, she'll get frustrated and stick with her old phone.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks
Donald

if you can transfer all the contacts from her blackjack to outlook, then all you need to do is sync up the iphone and on the summary page, in iTunes, there is a place where you can choose to get contacts from outlook....it will sync up all the info to the iphone

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