The first thing I noticed is many of my Google Contact entries are woefully out of date -- even for my own wife, yikes. Once I made the change, it does not seem to have updated her phone number.
Have I missed something? Or could this be slow because it's a new feature everyone is playing with?
Based on the time of your comment, it should have updated by now - if we're still not showing the updated phone number, could you email supportive@rapportive.com with details so we can take a look?
Also, is the Rapportive support bidirectional? I.e. data discovered is written back to Google Contacts. This way, any changes would be auto propogated down to my mobile device.
The Google Contacts support is currently one way, but it's a great idea to write the data back. Could you please vote on it here: http://rapportive.com/feedback/527051 — that way you'll be kept in the loop as we make progress :)
What mobile device do you use?
It would be interesting if you could somehow tie into webOS Synergy services.
If the internationalization app is sufficiently smart, it should be able to detect local numbers for different countries and at least make an attempt.
The problem with Google Contacts, for me, has been that it takes a long time to load --- sometimes as long as 20 seconds. I've always found this odd, and expected it to speed up eventually, because Google is supposed to be obsessed by speed...
Hover over the sender name in an email or the inbox and a 'card' pops up with picture etc. Click their name to see all details. 1 click, not too crazy.