Originally Posted by the_brein
yeah, I'm using exchange. I never sync through itunes. I'm running tmobile and I'm afraid of either getting locked and being unable to use tmobile, or overwriting and erasing contacts.
I'm wondering if the contacts get merged. which would be best. since I'm adding on both sides.
Ok. Since you're using exchange, you are syncing over the air (ota). You're merging. You've been adding contacts and such - you would have observed if you were having problems, no?
Honestly in the end, no matter the how, you're merging unless you specifically reset one or the other.
Also, you're safe to sync your phone to iTunes. Just don't update your firmware willy-nilly. Read up first and then update when there's an unlock. Check out modmyi.com and also the dev teams blog for updates.