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This guide describes how to setup your Palm Pre to have separate gmail profiles for your phone's contacts and your phone's emails.<br />
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This has several advantages.
1.) Typically email accounts "contacts lists" overflow with random email addresses from people you have never spoken to over the phone in your life. If you use the Palm Pre in the standard way, all of these individuals will be in your contacts list with no phone number, and probably no name, attached to them. Following the steps in this guide will give a clear distinction between your "phone contacts" and your "email contacts."<br />
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2.) Using separate accounts for contacts and email provides a simple way to transfer your contacts from another platform to the Palm Pre.<br />
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3.) This method, inherently, causes a copy of your "phone contacts" to reside in the gmail cloud providing you with a backup of your contacts that can be easily synced from the Palm Pre to other platforms. You also now have a place to edit your contacts where you can take advantage of a full keyboard and mouse.<br />
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2.) If you have a contacts on another system that you'd like to transfer over download the appropriate Google Sync program at [http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/ http://www.google.com/mobile/sync/]<br />
''NOTE: At the time of this writing sync applications were available for the BlackBerry, iPhone, Nokia, SyncML, and Windows''<br />
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3.) Run the Google Sync application using your new *.phone@gmail.com email address.<br />
