Contacts syncing over iPhone, iPad, iMac

Hi all,
This is my first post on here. I've just switched to the dark side which by the way was the best move ever, i will never go back to windows! I have just bought a brand new 27" iMac as the mother ship for all my Apple hardware and i was after some advice regarding contacts and syncing them. I am aware that the cloud will be out soon and syncing contacts will be very easy, but until then where do i start?
Me and the wife have a joint Gmail account where i would like to keep all our contacts all laid out the same and try and push them into our devices. Should i be using the address book on my iMac and use that as the master, or should i use the Gmail account? Could i be making a mountain out of a mole hill with this one?
If you have some experience with this one i would love to hear about your ideas. I just need a tried and tested managment system.
Regards
Carl.

Ok after some more investigation, it appears that it ONLY syncs correctly if the phone is in 3G and NOT on wireless. I hope this is addressed since my phone is on wireless half of the day!

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