android phone contacts not syncing with gmail

is google contact sync in android is one way that is single direction web to phone ? because new contacts or existing contacts from phone was not syncing back to gmail web account but existing contacts update on phone was reflecting flawlessly on web and one question came to my mind is the issue is with my phone? but when i searched on the web i came to know that there were tons of other people reporting the same problem that they can pull the contacts from gmail web but not upload existing or new one contacts from phone to the web is that a known issue? i really don't know because i really did not find any official pointers any where.

I also recently updated to latest updates but not of much help this issues exist in almost all the release and google has not yet patched it up though weird it is true and this make me think why google has not fixed yet such a simple issue?

what ever it is, the only work around as of now is:

1. Use third party free or paid sync applications such as Remo Backup, Syncml client from funambol etc
2. Use a PC suite and sync contacts with outlook or outlook express
3. Else manually update new or existing contacts on the gmail/ Web dont worry existing contact updates will get synced issue is only with new contacts from the phone

And last but not least update this issue to google or android website support portals and if you think there is any quick fix for this do let us know