Deletion behavior of contacts of an Exchange account

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I think the behavior in e.g. iOS and probably other OS's is better: If you disable synchronization for contacts or calendar in the account settings, you will be asked if you want to delete the corresponding local data or not. Therefore deleting the account is exaggerated. Also, after adding the account again, my order in the mail app is no longer correct. :-)

That sounds sensible to me. A much better solution would be the webOS "synergy" way, IMHO. With every "object", you could select the "storage" behind the object. That way, it was easy to move contacts or calendar events around between different backends, internal or cloud. This of course requires the "local" storage of these objects to have a superset of possible fields to cover all implemented backends, and a method to convert these from one backend to another. This worked almost flawlessly in webOS, and I miss it a lot.

A replica of webOS synergy would probably be very complex, whereas my suggestion would be rather easy to implement. My idea is to get rid of contacts (and calendar entries) of an account you don't want to synchronize anymore without having to remove the whole account.

@tux-o-mat I don't expect webOS-like synergy to be re-vived ever anywhere. It takes too much time and money to design a mobile OS from A-Z these days. It's dearly missed, though.