Update: OK, Motorla’s off the hook here. Instructions for fixing. Thanks, Jason!
Original: Don’t know about you guys, but we’re loving the Motorola Droid. But there’s one major sticking point that time and time again is causing our eyes to glow a familiar red:
The contacts.
Anyone who’s used gmail for more than five minutes knows that Google’s contacts are hardly the best in the world. They’re getting better, but they’ve got a long way to go. The Droid also has an interesting way of culling contacts, combining entries it believes are similar enough to be duplicates. But it goes too far. My father’s name is Ed. My grandfather’s name is Ted. They are not the same person, but the Droid treats them as such. (Good thing I go by Phil, or I’d be in the same boat, er, contact entry.)
If there’s a way to fix this, I haven’t found it. It’s been kicked around in our forums for a bit. You can sort things out a little by going to Contacts>Menu>Display options, but entries are still combined. And that’s no good. Please, Motorola, fix this with Android 2.1.
/rant