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

What counts as "syncing"?

[psych0naut.livejournal.com]

I was wondering about the option "Not automatically, but I do sync them sometimes". Would that include opening your phone's contact list manually typing the data into your computer's address book? Because I have done that (or going the other way, from computer to phone) on occasion.

[eggwhite.livejournal.com]

Explanation of the "Something else that I'll explain": I have multiple address books on my PC, some of which get synced to my phone, some of which don't. I do that to avoid burying the contact list I *want* on my phone with contact details for people I will never, ever want to speak to.

[kevandotorg.livejournal.com]

I'm probably being a bit sentimental and 20th century, but I remain a little baffled by the idea that I would want a small, vulnerable device to be permanently logged in to my primary email address.

[purplegril.livejournal.com]

Andriod and googlemail do it for me without me having to do a suncing process of any sort. This is why having to use a non-Android phone would be a total no-no for me and posing my phone never means losing my contacts. It's a huge deal to me.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Am I seriously the only one without a smartphone?

[pir.livejournal.com]

Android + Google contacts is very easy and makes sure I have my contacts around even if I forget or lose my phone. Also means I can enter contact details on my computer where it's easier to c&p or type on a real keyboard and they automagically appear on my phone. I sync everything but I have a "phone" group and set that to be what is displayed by default.

Before I had a smartphone I used to sync with AddressBook on my mac to have a backup.

[nickmurdoch.livejournal.com]

I didn't think my phone synced contacts but having read the rest of the responses here about Android (which I also use) I'm starting to wonder if that's not the case!

I don't have an application on my computer that can access whereever they're maybe being synced to, at any rate.

[beingjdc.livejournal.com]

Actual answer "It's meant to but it isn't working at the moment and I have got around to figuring out why".

[solitarywalker.livejournal.com]

i don't have a smart phone, but my computer automatically syncs my contacts to my iPod whenever i sync my music.

[tonight-we-fly.livejournal.com]

I've never knowingly done this, but my phone strangely seems to know the e-mail addresses and/or telephone numbers of some people that I'm certain have never given them to me. However, the coverage seems remarkably sporadic, and many more are clearly not there.

One day I intent to read the remainder of the instruction manual of my phone. I think I have about 140 pages to go.