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Enhanced Contacts ala BlackberryContacts

You can have three types of contacts, one for phone, one for gmail and one for sim card. Open contacts, hit your options button (lower left) to open the menu and select "display options". You will see all the three selections listed for the types of contacts available to you. One of them, sim contacts, only has the limited options you were speaking of. Try transferring her contacts to the phone or gmail contacts instead of sim and that should take care of it. If you enable the "phone" and "gmail" contacts, they will appear in your contacts list and you should be able to go back, open one up, hit edit, and it will give you all the other options for phone numbers, emails, etc. Hope this helps, good luck!
 
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She had it transferred at the AT&T store...

'nuf said.

You can have three types of contacts, one for phone, one for gmail and one for sim card...

I all the threads I've seen mentioning phone contacts, this is the first I've seen mention SIM contacts (I don't read all such thread). I've always been confused by it, but now I'm starting to understand. Is this issue of having some (or all) contacts as "phone contacts" specific to GSM phones? I don't have any such options on my Droid.
 
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'nuf said.



I all the threads I've seen mentioning phone contacts, this is the first I've seen mention SIM contacts (I don't read all such thread). I've always been confused by it, but now I'm starting to understand. Is this issue of having some (or all) contacts as "phone contacts" specific to GSM phones? I don't have any such options on my Droid.
Phones with SIM cards can store contacts directly on the SIM card, as opposed to just on the phone memory unlike CDMA phones where you can only store them on the phone. This makes it extremely easy to transfer contacts between phones (just swap the card, and your new phone has all your contacts). However, on older SIM cards, you can only store 1 number per contact. Most phones will make duplicates for a contact with each number if your copying from the phone memory to the SIM card. I've heard newer SIM cards don't have this limitation though.

As for the OP, it looks like she will have to go through and fix/add the contacts. When I got my Droid Eris, Verizon ****ed up the SIM import from my Nokia and it only had my contacts A through C (so, 12 out of 40 contacts and random duplicates).
 
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Phones with SIM cards can store contacts directly on the SIM card, as opposed to just on the phone memory unlike CDMA phones where you can only store them on the phone. This makes it extremely easy to transfer contacts between phones (just swap the card, and your new phone has all your contacts). However, on older SIM cards, you can only store 1 number per contact. Most phones will make duplicates for a contact with each number if your copying from the phone memory to the SIM card. I've heard newer SIM cards don't have this limitation though.

As for the OP, it looks like she will have to go through and fix/add the contacts. When I got my Droid Eris, Verizon ****ed up the SIM import from my Nokia and it only had my contacts A through C (so, 12 out of 40 contacts and random duplicates).

I've had Nextel phones before, and found the ability to swap SIM cards very useful at times, but the contacts were stored exclusively on the SIM card. I later had a Sprint CDMA phone, and used their integrated contact sync, which worked great when I had to replace or reset my phone. Now I'm using a Droid, and it works as well. I guess what's been throwing me off is availability of multiple contact databases on a single device (or at least that's how it appears to me).
 
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Same thing happened to me from my Bold to the Captivate. If you want to add more to the contacts you first have to move them off the sim onto the phone. There you will be able to edit and add more numbers, e-mail address and all the same functions you had on the RIM product.
The problem lies you are going to have to do it one by one because the Captivate sim only holds the first phone number and email address. Watch out you don't make to many links to the same contact. It was driving me crazy till I figured out what I was doing.
 
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I would tell anybody transferring from another smartphone to Android. Setup your old phone to sync with Google contacts, then when you switch over to your new Android and setup your gmail account boom here comes all your contacts formatted perfectly for your phone. Plus you have the option of editing and accessing them from your desktop or laptop.
 
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