I have a Samsung Ace for a pretty short time.

I don't have internet access on the carrier, but I'm mostly at home or office, where I have wi-fi access to the internet, so I'm fine by that.

I have some contacts stored on the phone, and the I synced with gmail, I have another set of contacts.

What irks me is that, if I go to gmail, I only see gmail contacts, but when I go to Kies, I only see my phone contacts.

Is there a way to merge all the contacts into a single spot? It would be okay if there was a way to first upload all the phone contacts to google and then remerge them. But I don't know if there is a simpler way.

Also, if I select to store contacts on gmail, what happens when I'm offline? will I still see the information from the last time I did a sync?