Some of you may have seen me post about the greatness of Dashwire in the past. Dashwire is a service that runs on your Windows Mobile device that allows you to do a variety of things on your device through a web-based application on your PC. From Dashwire you can send/receive SMS’, share videos and photos and give the world a view of what you are doing at a particular time just to name a few.

Dashwire themselves probably state it best: Dashwire offers the industry leading Mobile/Web Connected Service to help people seamlessly connect their mobile phones with their computers and the web, enabling them to backup and manage their content, search and interact with their information, and share their experiences with friends and social networks. As you’ve seen with the Apple MobileMe and Nokia OVI initiatives, the Connected Services space is on fire, creating exciting opportunities and demand for a free, cross-platform solution like Dashwire.

Today the folks at Dashwire announced the release of version 2.0 of their application which sports a host of improvements including a whole new device interface. The new UI looks fantastic and so far I have been impressed with what I’ve seen.

Some of the new features include:

• Graphical phone experience featuring user avatar, status updates, and media gallery
• Mobile access to photos & videos located on your Dashwire web account – even if the actual media files aren’t on your phone
• Photo uploads from your computer to your Dashwire web account, which then automatically appear on your phone
• Media editing, blogging, and sharing with friends – on the go as you’re capturing your experiences
• Direct status updates to Facebook & Twitter
• Privacy controls & media publishing

Truthfully I’ve been playing with v2 for only a few hours but you can tell the Dashwire team has put a lot of thought and effort into this release. I’ll be sure to post a follow up in a few days to let you know of any issue/challenges I ran into - if I do. :)

To try this free service, visit http://www.dashwire.com to sign up for an account then point your mobile device’s browser to http://m.dashwire.com to download the client. Note that Dashwire (and us here at Gear Diary) highly recommend you have an unlimited data account on your phone as the service runs in the background and constantly updates your photos, SMS’, videos and other items you synchronize automatically by default.

You can always check out my Dashwire page at http://dashwire.com/clintonfitchdotcom