Amongst the several addictive aspects of Android OS, is its integration with the cloud. When setting up a new Android device, all you require is a Gmail address and Contacts. Irrespective of the situation, you will always be able to access, manage and move your contacts at Google.com/Contacts.
By default, several skinned phones save contacts to the device by default, they’re not syncing up with Google’s servers. What’s the benefit of saving to Google account rather than your device? As long as your Google account is synced, your device will show you all of your Google Contacts. However, if contacts are saved to the device, they will not show up in Google.com/Contacts. Subsequently, it saves time and effort when you eventually get a new device or are forced to if something happened to your old one.
So here we are with three main skins to show you how to save contacts to Google rather than on the device.
Samsung’s Touchwiz:
Samsung’s contact application called Contacts and has an orange icon. When you visit the application, by default a pop up asks if you would like to save the contacts to the phone or to your Google account. Click the plus sign to add a new contact. It also allows you to remember this choice so you don’t need to do it every time. If you ever want to change the Contact settings, visit Contacts -> Menu -> More -> Settings.
HTC Sense:
HTC’s contact application is called People. When you visit the application and select new contact, by default is saved to the phone. Click on the Contact Type and switch to save to your Google account. Sadly, there is no option of saving your choice, hence you’ll have to do this every time.
Motoblur:
On Motorola’s phones, to ensure that new contacts are always saved to Google, you have to go into the Contacts application, go to Menu -> Settings and it’ll provide you with your various options to save the contacts to, Google being one of them.
