Phone address books

[squirmelia]

Just wondering about how many people actually bother syncing the contact list on their smart phone with their computers.
[Poll #1858057]

Comments

[purplegril.livejournal.com]

I don't know if you can use Android without logging into gmail, but I assume you can.

If you do, it simply backs up your contacts automatically into your gmail contacts. It's not a phone app of any sort as such.

There are Android phones that do a separate phone sync as well, of course, that would do it via an app.

I like it because I can log into my gmail anywhere I have internet and all my contacts are there, it's awesome!

My "system"

[erinaf.livejournal.com]

Phone numbers are in my phone and I think my phone merged them into gmail automatically.

Home addresses I have in a spreadsheet in google docs that I can open on my phone.

Email addresses are in gmail which I think autosynched with the phone but I only use the gmail client to send emails so I'm not 100% sure on that.

So basically google has all my data in some form or another that I can access via any device

[psyfira.livejournal.com]

I think it's optional but turned on by default; you can add a Google account to the phone but turn off syncing in the accounts and settings section of the phone so I'd assume that'd prevent GMail from using them too.

i ticked no but technically my contacts are synced to Google, I just don't use them for anything other than the phone. (there was a reason why but I forget what it was now, could've been something to do with getting contact's birthdays onto the calendar?)