Now you can log in your Gmail account on your computer and click the Gmail text link listed on the upper left side of the Gmail profile. Select "Contacts" and then you will see all the contacts from your Android smartphone have been stored. Therefore, your Gmail contacts are synced with your Android automatically. Similarly, if you change your Gmail contacts on the computer, the contacts on your Android will be synced in the same way. Late last year, the Contacts app gained the ability to move individual contacts from your phone's external storage to your Google google contacts app android account (and vice versa) without doing a full export or import. A new feature supersedes that, however, allowing the app to read and sync contacts saved to your device automatically so you won't have to worry about losing them should something happen to your phone.