Clean up Android contacts
The contacts app on your phone is the most boring, neglected app ever created. I don't care how much you love your phone -- the only reason you're reading a blog post about contacts right now is because things have gotten out of hand.
Are there people listed in your phone three or four times? Do you have 500 contacts, but only 10 of them have phone numbers? Well, then, it's time to take out the garbage.
The video above has all of my best advice, but I'm going to use this blog post to distill some of the major concepts. To hard-core Android users, some of these things are going to seem very obvious, so bear with me.
Google Contacts I sometimes forget that there are many people with Android phones who aren't actively using a Google account. You technically don't need a Google account to use an Android phone, but most people succumb to the idea of creating an account and associating it with their phone once they have an Android app or game they want to buy. Chances are that you have an Google account associated with your phone. If that's news to you, check the settings menu of your phone and look under the Accounts & Sync menu.
Now, if you head to contacts.google.com and sign in with the same account used on your phone, you'll find that Google has been dutifully synchronizing quite a f... [Read more]
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