[godspeed6]

With the Google/gmail enhanced Hero, the best thing to do is to keep your contacts updated with gmail. Any contact you have in your gmail contacts, is automatically synced/updated to your phone and vice-versa. Even when you tie a picture to a contact from your phone, it becomes a permanent part of your gmail account. It works so great, you can add one or a bunch of contacts to your gmail account if you have a computer/internet handy and it syncs wicked-fast to your phone.

Also, if you ever have to do a hard reset to your phone, all you have to do is enter your google/gmail settings to the factory-set phone, and all your contacts are right back on your phone. The setup is flawless, and I've done the hard-reset thing more than once to correct the other little "issues" you see discussed here on ppcgeeks.

People kind of whine that they don't want to have every number they program into their phone become part of their gmail contacts, but the best remedy for that and keeping organized is being able to create and sort your contacts into groups created from your phone and gmail. It all syncs together.