Gareth Bezett

I bit the bullet this week and merged my cellphone contacts with Gmail. To do this, I used my Android phone's manage contacts function and copied all my phone contacts (and a couple from my sim that hadn't yet made it over) to my Google account. I then synced my contacts so that they were all available in Gmail on the web. I then turned off (using the display options) all contacts from my phone book (the contacts tab in the same bit and the dialer) except those from my Google account that had phone numbers. This still allows contacts without phone numbers to show up in the Gmail app in the phone.

I then went through the process of merging my contacts in gmail. Gmail has a built-ion facility to do this and before too long I had most of my email and phone number records together for each person. Pretty painless in the end.