If you use Gmail, the Droid 2 very thoughtfully grabs all your contacts from there, and imports them into your Contacts list. And it’s not just a one-time transfer of contacts, but for every time you add, edit, or delete a contact. Whenever you change or add a contact in Gmail, those changes are synced to your Droid 2, and vice versa.
This means that you’re much better off creating all new contacts in Gmail on your computer, and then letting the Droid 2 import that new information when you sync up. It’s much easier to type on a keyboard than it is to tap away on your Droid 2.
Of course, that’s not always possible. Sometimes you need to add a contact right on your Droid 2. The way you add a new contact varies depending on whether you’re in the Phone app or the Contacts app. If you’re using the Phone app, you can’t simply create a new contact. Instead, you can only add people you’ve called, or who have called you. To add someone as a contact, tap the Recent icon at the top of the screen and scroll until you find the person you want to add. Tap the call. From the menu that appears, select “Add to Contacts”.
If you’re using the Contacts app, tap the green + button at the top of your Contacts list (the button stays there even when you scroll) and a screen pops up, where you enter contact information.
Type the person’s first name, last name, address information, and so on. If she has more than one email address, phone number, or address, then tap the + button next to the entry to add more.
One more trick—you can add a photo to the contact information. Tap this icon 
at the top of the screen, and a screen appears that lets you add a photo. If you already have a photo, tap “Use existing photo”, and you can browse through the Gallery for the picture. If the person happens to be right there with you, tap “Take Photo”, and the Camera app launches. Use it to take a photo (see Videos in the Gallery for details), which you can then use for the contact.
Also, pay special attention to the “Additional info” toward the bottom of the screen. Tap the sideways pointing arrow, and you see a wealth of other information you can add about the contact, including birthday, anniversary, website, note, and so on. Make sure to scroll to the bottom, because that’s where you’ll find the best stuff. Tap Ringtone, and you can specify a particular ringtone to play whenever the person calls you. And if the contact is someone you’d prefer to avoid, turn on the “Send straight to voicemail?” checkbox.
Already have a contact and want to edit his information? Open the contact, press the Menu key, and choose Edit. You come to the same screen you get for creating a new contact. Edit to your heart’s content.
Your Contacts app likely contains a long list, and even though the Droid 2 lets you zip through them quickly by flicking, it can still be tricky to find the person you want. There’s a simpler way—Groups. The Droid 2 lets you put contacts in various groups—for example, Family, Work, and so on—making it easier to find the person you want. You can view just the group rather than the entire Contacts list.
The Droid 2 also automatically creates several groups for you. All your Gmail contacts are in one group, for example; all your Facebook contacts are in another group; your Favorites (Designating Favorites) are in another group; and so on.
To display all contacts in any group, when you’re in the Contacts list, press the Menu key, and then tap “Display group”. You see a list of all your existing groups. Tap any of them to see everyone in that group. If you want to create a new group, tap “Create new group”. A screen appears that lets you select members for the group. Add them, name the group, and you’ll have a new group you can use to find contacts more quickly.
The Droid 2 has a few more tricks up its sleeve when it comes to working with contacts. To see them, open a contact, and then press the Menu key. Here are the choices you’ll see, and what each does:
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If a contact is imported from Facebook, not all of these options will be available. You can’t use the “Share name card” option, and the “Invite to” option isn’t available, because the contact is already on Facebook.
Edit. Lets you edit the contact’s name and other information.
Delete. Deletes the contact from your Droid 2.
Link contact. If you get contacts from multiple sources, you may have duplicates. You might have a contact imported from Gmail, for example, but then that same person sends you an email from another email service, and you add that one to your Droid 2 as well. Now you’ve got duplicate contacts, with potentially different information for each. Tap “Link contact”, and you can join them into one single contact. The second contact doesn’t actually disappear. It’s just hidden, and its information is imported into the first. That way, you can unlink the contacts whenever you want.
Unlink contact. Tap to separate duplicates that you previously linked.
Invite to. If you use social networking services, like Facebook, then tap this button to send an invitation to the contact to join the service.
Share name card. Want to share contact information with someone else? Tap this option, and you can send a vCard, the standard file format for electronic business cards. The person receiving the vCard can import the information into any common email program like Outlook by double-clicking it. You can send the vCard via email, Bluetooth, or text messaging.
