you can choose for that not to happen, but if you've just used gmail for emails and not as a PIM (like I use yahoo and aol), you most likely haven't chosen that and have a ton of crap in your contacts. Personally the more I read about synergy and contacts, the more I think it just plain sucks. I'll continue to use my main PIM as my sole source of contact and calendar info and that's it. I think Palm has a lot more work to do on this aspect of synergy. And if I choose to get email from a source, it seems it'll automatically add in the contacts and such from that source? That just doesn't make sense. All or nothing? Maybe there was a reason all this info was kept under wraps for so long. We would've been b*tching and moaning for months instead of two weeks before launch. I can just imagine the average joe thinking synergy will be the coolest. He'll link all his different accounts and have so much crap to sift through on his phone he'll just be beside himself. Nice to see Palm is still Palm
+1 on the salesman point. I have my contacts, memos and appointments all separated in to categories. If I can't maintain those categories across the board, the Pre is useless. Wow...hard to believe I'm becoming far less excited about this phone.
Originally Posted by hypocaffeinemia:
The problem is that google puts anyone you've ever sent an email to in your "all contacts" bucket.
The customer support agent for an online purchase you talked to three years ago isn't exactly something that should reside in your contact list.
And while it's easy to go and remove all these contacts from "all contacts" in gmail, it's kind of silly when the technology already exists to create a "my contacts" list and the API already supports only retrieving that list.