Huawei smart phone

[HAN]

If you want to have some phone only contacts, most phones offer a phone only contact storage area. And depending on the type of phone carrier's technology, they may also use a SIM card which also offers contact storage. The means to access these alternative areas varies from phone to phone.

When you add a contact, there should be a option to choose the type of contact. On my phone, it is a drop down box where I can choose Phone, SIM or Google. Then, within the contact viewer, you should have a menu choice where you choose the types of contacts to view. In my case, I can choose any or all of the 3 choices.

In the FWIW category, I highly recommend that you don't use more than one area to store your contacts. It may seem better to have only the ones you use on your phone only on your phone. But IMO, if they are worth storing, they are worth backing up (which Google does extremely well!) If you want them to be sorted better (friends, family, business and so forth), try using Google contacts groups. To my knowledge, all recent Android phones support Google contact groups. Using groups makes organization of large numbers of contacts very easy. On my phone, 100% of my nearly 400 contacts are Google contacts. But I use several groups to keep them organized.