quick python script for converting massive gmail contacts to iphone-friendly address book requires vobject (sudo easy_install vobject). Note this failed on a few unicode contacts which I had to remove from the VCF file manually.

gistfile1.py

import vobject

vcfdata = open("Downloads/00001.vcf").read()
out = open("Downloads/scrubbed.vcf", 'w')
contacts = vobject.readComponents(vcfdata)

done = False
while not done:
    try:
        contact = contacts.next()
    except:
        done = True

    if contact.contents.get('tel', False):
        if contact.contents.get('photo', False):
            contact.contents.pop('photo')
        if contact.contents.get('fn', False):
            out.write(contact.serialize())
out.close()