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Contact List App

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I am successfully storing contacts in dashboard data browser by this code.

public void readContacts(){
         ContentResolver cr = getContentResolver();
         Cursor cur = cr.query(ContactsContract.Contacts.CONTENT_URI,null, null, null, null);

         if (cur.getCount() > 0) {
            while (cur.moveToNext()) {
                String id = cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts._ID));
                String name = cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.DISPLAY_NAME));
                if (Integer.parseInt(cur.getString(cur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.Contacts.HAS_PHONE_NUMBER))) ==1) {
                    System.out.println(name );
                    ParseObject testObject = new ParseObject("Contacts");

                    testObject.put("names", name);

                    // get the phone number
                    Cursor pCur = cr.query(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTENT_URI,null,
                                           ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.CONTACT_ID +" = ?",
                                           new String[]{id}, null);
                    while (pCur.moveToNext()) {
                          String phone = pCur.getString(
                                 pCur.getColumnIndex(ContactsContract.CommonDataKinds.Phone.NUMBER));
                         System.out.println( phone);
                        testObject.put("phonenumber", phone);

                    }
                    pCur.close();
                    testObject.saveInBackground();
           }
        }
     }
  }

But there is no check for the duplicate contacts !

It stores all the contacts duplicate from sim / phone memory.

How can it be avoided ?

One possible method I think is to store distinct names(contact) in local database