Consolidating contacts to manage with iPhone

Help!
The facts:
I'm a former Palm user, and my primary address book/phone list is on my Palm Desktop (several hundred records) (these can be exported as *.csv, .txt or vCard)
I've also been using an Android phone for a while, and have about 150-200 contacts that I want to keep (which I've exported to a *.vcf file on my computer)
I've now got a new iPhone 5 which I'm intending to be my single platform going forward, so want to consolidate and clean up once and for all.
So I need to do a BUNCH of manual clean-up of the contacts before loading it to my iPhone -- lots of duplication (and other info, from the Palm, that I'll need to copy to other places, like Evernote).
I run Windows 7 on my computer.
I REALLY want to be able to access my contacts/address book from my computer, ideally in a way that I can edit entries and do two-directional syncing with the iPhone, so edits made on either platform (PC or iPhone) will appear on the other.
The questions:
Is there any app or software that will let me do any of the above?
I read about Outlook as a way to edit Palm address books and convert to iPhone and thought it would solve my problem, but then I read that it doesn't run on Windows 7. Replaced by Windows Live Mail, but I haven't seen that mentioned anywhere with respect to data migration/clean up for this purpose. (oversight? Or doesn't work? I don't know!)
I've searched a bit but can't find anything that would be like Evernote (for notes), but for Contacts -- something that automagically synchs between all platforms so the data is current everywhere always.
Is there hope for me, or am I doomed to late nights of manually typing contact entries on my iPhone screen?
Thanks!

If you are using a Windows computer then try iCloud Control Panel:
http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1455
Make sure you are signed in to the same Apple ID and have mail contacts and calendars checked off in the control panel on your pc.
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