Gmail Contacts now FAR more syncable

Google just improved the way GMail Contacts worked. Previously, trying to sync a S60 phone with this (usually through GooSync) meant having to put up with hundreds of 'fake' contacts (added 'helpfully' by GMail, the people you've replied to more than 5 times), all of which then made it down the (virtual) wire to your phone's Contacts at sync time. Ugh. Well, check GMail Contacts now and you'll see there's a new 'Suggested' list, acting as a manual pre-filter before any of these extra addresses get added to your GMail Contacts. Good system and it should ease the syncing woes of many. Even better, the suggestions are back dated, so previous unwanted additions are 'undone'. Comments welcome!

Published by Steve Litchfield at 22:26 UTC, October 21st

Categories: Software, Miscellaneous
Platforms: General

News Discussion

snoyt

Comment: Looks like it starts becoming practical. But I do wish there were a sync that actually used the grouping private, non-private to sync your calendar to different servers.

As in non-private synced to work, and private synced to a gsync/nokiasync account. Both work and private adresses nicely separated by its purpose. Any solved that? I mean, symbian has this cute little flag you can set for appointments. Why is it not used?

rgphilpott

Comment: This is not a new feature in GMail -- it's been there for at least a couple of months.

Unfortunately, GooSync still can't distinguish between Suggested Contacts and "real" ones, so still downloads all of them to the phone -- apparently the GMail API hasn't caught up with the UI yet.

Unregistered

Comment: Anybody knows how to set the "Mail by Google" app to check the mailbox automatically like in every 5/10/etc. minutes? Would they omit this basic function?

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