I have used desktop manager to backup older BB's and using the backup file data moved it to the new phone. doing this allows movement of data from phones not being "device switched" I did this for a contact list from an older BB. I did have to manually delete any duplicates but it saved time having to manually input each..
How to transfer data from a BlackBerry smartphone running BlackBerry Device Software 5.0 and above to the BlackBerry 10 smartphone