I just upgraded to an iPhone 4S from an HTC Incredible 2. As some of you may know, contacts in Android/Gmail can become rather cumbersome to maintain properly. You have "phone contacts" and you have "gmail contacts" and you sometimes have "other contacts" as well. When Verizon moved my "contacts" across to the iPhone, I got duplicates of most contacts (one with a phone number and one with an email address), and I got many email-only contacts. Obviously, I didn't set my contacts up this way, but Android was showing them to me consolidated into one contact item.
To be sure, there are pros and cons to this. One "pro" is that you don't have to worry about how the contacts are organized; they all just "show up". One "con" is that if you ever switch platforms, or even just export a list of contacts to a CSV file or something, you get a scrambled mess. My wife went throught this same thing when she upgraded to an iPhone a few months ago.
Someone who has had the iOS platform for a while...are contacts organized better than they are in Android? That is, if you sync your contacts with iCloud, the phone isn't going to keep multiple lists of contacts is it? An "iCloud contacts" and a "phone contacts" list, etc?
Interestingly, Google and Apple seem to be furthering the distance between them. You cannot sync Gmail contacts with an Apple device. You can sync mail and calendars, but not contacts. Other services are fine (like Yahoo), but Gmail won't let the Apple device sync contacts. If rumors are true about upcoming changs in iOS 6 (like a new Apple maps and navigation application), I can see the divide between the mobile divisions of Apple and Google continue to grow.
To be sure, there are pros and cons to this. One "pro" is that you don't have to worry about how the contacts are organized; they all just "show up". One "con" is that if you ever switch platforms, or even just export a list of contacts to a CSV file or something, you get a scrambled mess. My wife went throught this same thing when she upgraded to an iPhone a few months ago.
Someone who has had the iOS platform for a while...are contacts organized better than they are in Android? That is, if you sync your contacts with iCloud, the phone isn't going to keep multiple lists of contacts is it? An "iCloud contacts" and a "phone contacts" list, etc?
Interestingly, Google and Apple seem to be furthering the distance between them. You cannot sync Gmail contacts with an Apple device. You can sync mail and calendars, but not contacts. Other services are fine (like Yahoo), but Gmail won't let the Apple device sync contacts. If rumors are true about upcoming changs in iOS 6 (like a new Apple maps and navigation application), I can see the divide between the mobile divisions of Apple and Google continue to grow.