Grandpa's Address Book
For the last couple of years I’ve been thinking of a better way to manage all my contacts spread out over different social networks, web services, and email addys, mobile etc.
This year I decided that Nokia’s syncing service Ovi would be my main address book over Gmail because of the slick syncing over the air to my multiple Nokia handsets. Still I had to manually collect and import contact information from all over and duplicates are an issue.
There is a company out of Hamburg Germany called Cellity that makes a simple java based (j2me) app that runs on your mobile. Cellity collects your contacts from multiple places like facebook and gmail and makes one tidy address book. It even deals with duplicate entries!
I’ve currently signed up for the beta and can’t wait to try this app out. Hopefully it’s a step in the right direction for easy contact data organization.
Next problem that needs to be solved by an native app is the local phonebook. That giant heavy thing seems a bit dated to me. Let’s push things forward.
