Comments on: Contact apps can’t handle 2 people per card… So what about couples?

By: Ricky Cadden

Ricky Cadden — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:39:19 +0000

Jeb – true, but which name would you expect the phone to show, if you have the same number for 2 people? How is the phone supposed to know which person is doing the heavy breathing on the other end of the phone line?

What if the phone guessed your mom, when really, it was your dad? Maybe not too embarassing, but what about a business contact, where three people have the same main line? That could potentially be frustrating. If you give everyone their own identity, as Kevin puts it, there’s no issues.

By: Jeb Brilliant

Jeb Brilliant — Mon, 04 May 2009 23:00:08 +0000

Kevin,
If you have your parents home number on both of their contact cards don’t you have an issue with the caller ID when they call you? The phone won’t know which name to show so it just shows the #?

By: Kevin Neely

Kevin Neely — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:50:06 +0000

I think there should always be one contact card per person. Don’t force them to lose their identity.
For example, I have entries for each of my parents. Their mobile numbers are different, but the “home” phone is the same on both. A little bit of repeated entry but not a big deal.
The ability to link contact cards somehow would be nice. Maybe contacts 2.0 should be a mini social network, with connections between the different entries showing degrees of separation. It could just pull this data from the large public social networks. That would be neat.

In other news, Avatar photos with significant other = FAIL. Keep your identity, people!

By: Ricky Cadden

Ricky Cadden — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:47:59 +0000

Simple – each person gets their own card, and none of my friends are lame enough to have a home number anymore.

If they are, make a personal policy to put the home number on either the dude or the chick, and follow that through in your entire phonebook.