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Windows Central Question Do I need to use a Microsoft account as an interim step?
in the old windows phone, did you save your contacts with your email account? You can easily check by going to your email in a browser and then going to the people section - if your contacts were saved in that email, then you can set up your new phone with the same email and your contacts will sync to your new phone
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