I recently got a new phone and it is pretty cool, but that's not what I'm going to write about. After getting this new phone I now have two problems:
- Nobody knows my new number.
- I don't have other people's numbers in my phone.
There are ways to solve problem #2 including backing up my other phone's SIM card and loading the details onto my new phone or manually entering all of the contact details. There are also ways to solve #1, including emailing everyone I think might be interested and giving them my new number or just using a 'need to know' approach, where I give it out to people that ask or perhaps posting my new details on Facebook.
With my new phone I can sync my Outlook contacts, which is pretty cool but it is not quite all I need. With Facebook I can access my friend's contact details and they can change them and I automatically get the updates. Unfortunately getting the information back out of Facebook for offline use seems to be frowned upon. It seems like I need a combination of the two systems.
So this is what I would really love:
- My friends can enter their contact details and choose to share them with me.
- I can access their details online, but they also get synced to my devices including my PC and phone so I don't need to be connected to view them.
- Whenever I do get connected on whichever device my contacts get synced.
What I'm thinking is that I should own my information and be able to update it in a single place but it should be able to be used by any of my friends. It should not be necessary for each of my friends to duplicate my efforts to update my contact information.
Is there such a system available?
