Google Contacts

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If you’re an avid user of the Google/Android ecosystem but don’t actually own a Nexus or Pixel smartphone, you’ll be pleased to know that Google’s Contacts app is — finally — officially available to every other Android device out there (well, provided they’re running Android 5.0 or newer). Alongside this compatibility ‘fix’, the app has been updated with the ability to merge duplicated contacts and to receive automatic suggestions for info to add to existing contacts, both very useful features for simplifying the often-daunting list that contacts can become. Of course, you’ll be getting everything that typically arrives with a contacts app, but naturally, you’ll also get Google’s integrated sheen along with it. The ability to save all your contacts to a Google account, in particular, is handy for people who switch phones often or work across numerous devices, and being able to add contacts to groups is plenty useful for separating such things as work and ‘real life’. You can input an alarming amount of detail for each contact too, even including things like how to phonetically pronounce their first and last names.