Saving iphone contact info prior to synching with mobileMe

I have contact info on my iphone that isn't stored anywhere else; It has just been transferred from one cell phone to another for several years. I also have other contact info on Google Contacts, and have synched the goog info to mobileMe. Is it possible to save/upload the iphone's contact info to MobileMe without having to manually re-enter all this info into goog or mobileme? I can't seem to find a way to do this after a great deal of research.

"The iPhone and iPod touch will also sync content bi-directional (with merge capabilities) when dealing with other data such as Contacts, Calendars, and Bookmarks."
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1296

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DSA1 wrote:
The calendar events that keep duplicating, this resolution did not correct. I docked and today's event duplicated itself. It may have something to do with the alarm being recirculated...ie., I hit remind me again in 30 minutes and then sync the phone. Would that place a duplicate of the event on the phone? I would hope it would just reset the alarm on it as well, but that may be the issue. I've deleted the offending events on every machine including the iPhone and will set them up again and test that out.
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Let the alarm go off on your desktop machine, and then select the repeat in 5 mins option.
Sync your iPhone again.
Now check your iPhone, there will be a new non-recurring copy of the event with an alert time offset to GMT time on the iPhone.
I'm going to send this as a bug report to Apple and hope they see it as such. The iPhone's calendar is a crowded enough view to not need duplicates of events showing up on it.
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Saving iphone contact info prior to synching with mobileMe

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