I can think of a couple of reasons for duplicate entries:
1: If there is voice recognition for selecting a call destination, and 
more than one person using the phone, like me and my wife with one phone 
between us, there will have to be an entry for each voice recognition 
pattern.
2: If there are more numbers (voice, E-mail, etc.) than there are normal 
slots for, then the only way to store them is create another entry.

In either case, maybe that's the way it should be, if you want to get 
rid of someone, just have one time, and all done.

Peter Todd wrote:
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> On Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 01:33:39PM -0700, Bob Blick wrote:
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>>>> An awful lot of "open source" software sucks.
>>>>         
>> Let's see... my iPod has several glaring bugs, and my
>> new Samsung refrigerator has a bug so big it makes the
>> compressor run 24 hours a day.
>>
>> Personally I think the quality of open source software
>> is improving and quality of closed source software is
>> the same or getting worse.
>>     
>
> Open source can always be improved, closed source...
>
> I just noticed that my cell phone has a absurd bug where if you try to
> add a name to the address book twice, you get two seperate entries. But
> if you try to delete the dupe, both entries are deleted. I ran into when
> I needed to get into a building, and the only way was to call my friend
> inside with the keys... Not having his phone number meant I got to climb
> a rusting 9 story high fire escape with railings just a little above my
> knees and a hinged and swinging 30ft ladder at the start with a
> *rotating pipe* over one of the rungs 15ft up. (darling building,
> spadina and adalaide)
>
> Now if it were open source, I, or someone else, could have fixed that
> bug long ago. Instead it will never be fixed and the manufactuer will
> likely make the same mistake again.
>
> Of course, if it were open source, chances are the first version would
> be made by some teenager in mom's basement, but at least it can improve,
> and often does.
>
> - -- 
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