Name and (Physical) Address Book

[Cogs]

I have a HTC Desire.

I cannot find an address book on it or in the Market for the good old name and address book.

You know the type, when every one actually lived somewhere on the planet.

Everything I can find call an email address an address. That is akin to a Post Office Box in the days of snail mail.

I bought the Desire to replace my dying iPaq which served me well for many years.

I want to be able to put in ALL of a person's or business's details.


Cheers

Cogs
Life was so much simpler in the '60's.

 

[wildland]

Sure, the regular Contact List ("People") can do this for you (I assume - I have an HTC Incredible which should be pretty comparable in this regard), it just doesn't show those fields by default... Go to "People" app and edit a contact - at the bottom of the page you'll see a window for "others" and a dropdown labeled "Add - Add more information" - select that and choose postal address and away you go.

Rather than enter all that data into my phone, I'd probably try to export the lists from the ipaq and import it to your google contacts which would then sync to the phone - that's how I transferred everything to my inc from my last phone....

 

[Cogs]

Thanks Wildland.

I tried that but the Desire only gives you Name and Contact number.

Seems silly to have deeted the ability to do what a lot if not most people would want to do.

Cogs
Life was so much simpler in the '60's.

 

[dvhttn]

I've got a Desire HD and sync all my contacts from Outlook using MyPhoneExplorer. I've used Outlook as my *address book* for years and always used to sync it with the Nokia phones I've had.

Outlook (at least Outlook 2000 that I use does it this way) has an 'Address' box for your postal address and and 'E-mail' field for email addresses. Plus options for business/mobile/other/etc phone numbers. In fact the 'Address' box can have both a business, home and 'other' address details.

Sync it to the DHD and looking at the 'People' app for one of the contacts I have a home and business address for and I see 'View home address' and 'view business address'. Plus all the 'call home', 'call work', etc.

Is that what you're after?

Dave

 

[Cogs]

Yes Dave , that's exactly what I'm after.

I thought it strange to have such a powerful item as my Desire and not have this ability.

Do you know if addresses etc. can be entered into the phone itself for if you get a new contact or something on the fly?

Cogs
Life was so much simpler in the '60's.

 

[dvhttn]

... Do you know if addresses etc. can be entered into the phone itself for if you get a new contact or something on the fly? ...

Just checked as I've never actually done so .... You can add a contact via the 'People' app with, it would seem, all the same attributes that Outlook has. At least, without checking each and every field, there are enough not to make any difference; at least for me.

Some fields that are probably important to an *address* book.

Contact type - Google, SIM or Phone. ['Phone' used as the example as I'm not interested in a Google contact].

Phone - Mobile, home, work, work fax, home fax, pager, car, company, radio, assistant, ..... (don't bother asking me what/why on the last couple ..... )

Email - up to 3 email addresses.

Postal address - home, work, other.

Plus IM, events, group, organisation, notes, website.

It does the job fine for me. The only thing I had to change using Outlook compared to a *physical* address book was in the case of a couple. A 'Mr and Mrs' case. Here the address, most of the name and the landline numbers are the same but they have different mobile numbers. There wasn't an easy way to differentiate the numbers in Outlook (nor, by syncing, on the phone) so I end up with a 'Mr x' and a Mrs X' with substantially the same details but differing mobile numbers and, possibly, different email addresses. Duplication maybe, but then that's what computers are for!
Also with parents. A lot of people would probably have them down as 'mum' and 'dad' but as I use the same database to populate my wife's phone as well as my own that was a bit of a non-starter, so parents are now down under their proper names.

... Life was so much simpler in the '60's.

Tell me about it! By coincidence I've just been scanning some old negatives of Dad's from about 1957 on. And life was so much simpler!

Dave

 

[Cogs]

Well I've moved another step forward toward the 21st century. I may make it yet.

If I set my contacts to "phone" and not "SIM' everything I wanted and more is right there at my finger tips.

How simple things are once one knows what buttons and icons to touch.

Thank you to those that responded.

By the way my 19 year old son pointed out to me the other day that my Desire and his iPhone 4 have as much computing power as our first PC in 2001. I know which one I would rather have in my pocket!

Cheers

Cogs
Life was so much simpler in the '60's.