Now I can't edit contact and add new contact to outlook.com account on my Android phone.

But as I said, using only the stock app, if you have multiple calendars, you won't be able to access them all and choose which one to use when creating / modifying events.

AWESOME!!! Thank you so much. I too was hoping that with the upgraded Outlook.com app for Android Microsoft would have the insight to make the obvious option available. I'm using a Motorola Droid Bionic running Android 4.0.4. I've had a hotmail address for years and don't want to change. I don't want to have contacts to update in more than one place. This solved my problem. Thanks again!

I found a solution by combining Outlook.com app and the the Exchange account type that comes with Jelly Bean. In fact, I would probably have used only the Exchange ActiveSync account but it doesn't support multiple Windows Live Calendars.

The way I did it is to configure Outlook.com to sync only calendars, not contacts then I created the ActiveSync account and requested it to sync only Contacts and Tasks (not Calendar and Email). This way, I can modify / add contacts and (any) calendar events and I take my emails in Outlook.com app.

Hope this can help.

Dear Carsok,

Thank you so much for this solution which works perfectly. I couldn't believe that it wasn't possible to create or edit contacts within the outlook.com android app. On my Motorola Razri I had the choice of adding a new contact by saving to my sim card but this wouldn't sync to my outlook.com account.

As I have only recently acquired my Android phone I hadn't tried adding/editing contacts with the old outlook.com app, but given the date of DannyWongMTCA's original question I assume that this is a longstanding issue. If so, how extraordinary that it wasn't addressed when the updated app was released just a few days ago.

I don't want to use gmail and really want outlook.com to be a viable, if not better, alternative, but to echo User\_333, Microsoft seriously needs to get its show on the road. If Contact Editor can provide this functionality why can't Microsoft?!!!!

I don't know how you found out that Contact Editor would solve the problem, Carsok, but I am indebted to you for your help. However, my debt is nowhere as big as Microsoft's debt should be to Contact Editor for rescuing their product.

I am also having this problem.  I have an android tablet with Jellybean.  I can sync just fine with my contacts via outlook.com, but when I want to add a new contact, I get presented the message "Your new contact will be synchronized with my gmail account (which I never use).  I have the two choices of OK or add a new account.  But, the only two options I have under add a new account is "google" or "corporate".  Then, I can go through the steps of setting up a new exchange account.  

I've turned off syncing contacts for gmail in the system settings/account settings.  And, I've gone ahead and added a contact to see if it would sync with outlook.com.  I figured, if I got the contact in the contact database, it might just go ahead and sync with outlook, but this did not work.

But, I finally tried "Contact Editor Free" available on Google Play.  The way this works is when you choose to add a new contact from "People" (the address book that came with my android), you can choose to use the contact editor and then you can choose to create the contact under my outlook.com account.

This works, but is not really elegant.  I'd rather create the contact straight from my address book.  But it works just fine.  If anyone has a better idea, I would appreciate your responses.