Why are my contacts appearing twice after I synched?

All my contacts are showing twice after I synched my Iphone 4. Why an dhow can I fix?

Are you syncing through iTunes and then possibly something like MobileMe or Google? If so, you need to turn off the iTunes sync so you are only syncing with the web-based server. That will produce the duplicates.

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