I don't know whether OP would like it or not (many will not), I would recommend syncing with msn account and probably there are more ways to sync those things between msn and google. It seems to work perfectly to me but I don't use it so seriously to notice minor issues, if there are. In case of google, I guess, there are problems with having multiple phone numbers in same contacts. I think once I lost cell number plus other details of many of my contacts.

I am not so much anti microsoft not to use something they are providing for free and there are nothing comparable/working solution.