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By: Don

Don — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 22:26:32 +0000

Does anyone know if I have 3,000 plus contacts on my gmail contact list will I be able to scroll to ANY of the contacts on an LG Ally Android phone or something similar from Verizon? I do NOT want to try to synchronize anything.

Many thanks.

By: JR

JR — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:52:23 +0000

Doesn’t work, puts everything but the name in “Notes” field.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 07:21:07 +0000

Is it possible to add gmail contacts permanently in android address book.

By: Jodie Miners

Jodie Miners — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:38:00 +0000

Thanks for the comment Paul as it gave me your new email address that I lost it in the deletion . Now to update that too!

But yes, now that they are all in Gmail they will be easy to manage!

By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 12:27:54 +0000

Wow, such a headache, Jodie.

My own experience has been much more positive. I imported my Outlook contacts into Gmail in Spring last year without any bother. Just before Christmas I got my new Android phone and was expecting hassle in importing my contacts, but it was almost seamless (in fact, it happened so quickly, I thought it hadn’t worked at all!).

Transferring the contacts off my old mobile via the SIM was more tricky, but a lot of that was down to Windows Mobile (never again!), and – like you – at least it forced me to clean-up and de-dupe my phone list (I also like how Google Mail helps you merge records – I had three phone numbers and four separate email addresses for one person, now all aggregated in one place).