When I’ve got my brand-new Android phone, I immediately activate the synchronization feature to sync my calendar, contacts and email. After the synchronization process is complete, I found that the contacts in my phonebook are so many, over 2000 contacts.

This number is a way over than it should; I know that there is something wrong. When I check the phonebook, I found many duplicate contacts on my Android phone. There are contacts who have same name but different phone numbers or email address, there are contacts with the same phone numbers but different name (I write it a different way), and there are contacts who identical same but stored more than one in my phone. Apparently, this thing can happen because I synchronize contacts stored on my Google account and also synchronize contacts that stored on other services such as Yahoo or Facebook.

This condition is a bit frustrating, especially if I have to find and delete duplicate contacts one by one. If you experience a same problem like me, then you do not need to worry, because now you can install third-party applications that can help to overcome this problem.  The application name is Continue reading →