Gmail only limits you to 10,000 contacts. ?I have used Outlook for many years and I have many more contacts than that. ?Granted, they are not all active and not all even have email addresses, but it is a pain to have to move people back and forth to keep the ones that are active in my main address book that synchs. ?It would be nice if I could just use filters and have them all in one place in Outlook, but to synch with the Google cloud I cannot do that.

What makes matters worse is that I do not use Exchange for my personal domains, nor do I feel like I want to pay for that extra service, although it is available through various third parties for a monthly fee.

So I had to purchase a program called CompanionLink which for a flat fee does the synching at intervals that I need. ?Supposedly they are working on a version that doesn’t require the Google cloud, so that would probably circumvent the problem I had with the contact limitation mentioned above.

I don’t have a problem per se with with Google cloud, but I do have an issue with how long it seems to take to pull up an name, particularly with the text messaging.

I use a free Droid application called Handcent, which is much more heavy in features than the resident texting program.