Transfer contacts from samsung to iphone5 - what a mess

Question

Hi,
I had a Samsung Stratosphere until I purchased the iphone5.
Immediately after the purchase, the technician transferred my contacts to my new phone. During the transfer my contacts seem to have come apart. For example, now my contact lists is a combination of names and emails. Often I don’t know who to pair the email with.
Rick Smith
[email protected]
Rite Aid
[email protected]
Another thing that has happened, but not with every contact is this: before the transfer I had one contact with this info - first name, last name, work phone, home phone, email address 1, email address 2. After the transfer, the first and last names appear repeatedly in the list of contacts and each entry has either the work phone or the home phone or the email address 1 or the email address 2.
I can select EDIT and “link contacts” but in some cases I have 6 or more that need to be linked with one name. 
This is so confusing. I hope I explained it in a way that can be understood. Also, I went back to the technician and was told this happens with every transfer between iphone and another brand and it is unavoidable.
Suggestions?
Thanks,
YiaYia

Answer 1

YiaYia24 wrote:
This is so confusing. I hope I explained it in a way that can be understood. Also, I went back to the technician and was told this happens with every transfer between iphone and another brand and it is unavoidable.
That's nonesense.
The contacts on your Samsung may have been backed up to your Gmail account. If so, the easiest way to to this would be to simply add your Gmail acocunt to your iPhone and sync then that way. Settings>Mail, Contacts, Calendar>Add New Account.