A reintroduction and back-story.
I was a Blackberry user and C/B poster for a couple of years until I bought my first Android phone, the Google Nexus, in 2010. Since then I have had 4 Android phones with my present phone being the Note2. All the while I kept my eye on new Blackberry phone offerings. I hate typing on VKB, missing the keyboards of the BB, however I didn't want to give up the bigger screens of my Android phones. I have often told people that the best phones for what they are designed to do are BBs. In short I missed my BBs. All this is going to change with the coming of Passport. When I saw that phone I genuinely felt the first true excitement I have had over any phone. That is going to be my next phone. I can't wait.
Now for the real purpose of this post. I have spent the last couple of weeks following C/B and others BB forums to try to glean any info as to what I will need to do to go from my Android phone to BB. I've been looking for some sort of compendium, a Dummy's Guide to converting to Blackberry from Android. It is like a putting together a giant jigsaw puzzle with the pieces scattered all over. Things like how do I transfer my contacts, do I have to reformat my sd card, etc. Since I did have a BIS account in the past, with a different phone number, can I reactivate it or do I just start a new one? I can't remember the details of the account (such as password) since it has been almost 5 years, if I can reactivate it will my old BB apps re-install?
Anyway, if anyone can just point me the right direction I can take it from there. I am looking forward, and saving my $$, to get the Passport and enjoying my BB smartphone experience and PKB usage again. Thanks.