Overwhelmed and confused by managing contacts on your Android phone? You're not alone.
Like most people, you've probably spent the last 15 years accumulating contacts on your cell phone. Meanwhile, you've also been building contact lists in your various email accounts. Imported together on your smart phone or tablet, you've got a colossal mess. Which of the three home numbers you have for your buddy is correct? Why does he show up in your address book multiple times? And when he gives you his new contact info, which contact source (or sources) should you update?
Time to simplify! Consolidate your contact lists and merge those old "phone" contacts into a master list. Contacts are contacts and the fewer lists to maintain the better. In the age of smartphones, we finally have full-featured contact functionality to keep ALL your contact's info in one place.
I'll walk you through step-by-step instructions to conquer your contacts. You'll have to spend a bit of time for general cleanup and standardization - more or less time depending on how may contacts you have - but the mechanics of moving and "de-duping" contacts are easy. In less than an hour, you can have all your contacts consolidated. You can then chip away at cleanup (e.g., standardizing names to easily eliminate duplicates).
