at the risk of being accused of turning into all-google-api-all-the-time, i thought i’d pass along that the fine folks from the google api support team responded to my e.mail about the phonebook: operator:
“We’ll take a look into adding support for this. Our intention is to support all of the Google features through the API; some are more work than others to enable.”
so i guess that means that support is coming sooner or later.