As you know, Dashwire offers the industry leading Connected Service to help users take the contacts, text messages, calls, photos, videos, and settings from their mobile phones to their computers and the web, where they can backup their stuff, search & interact with their information, and share their experiences with friends and social sites like Facebook, Flicker, Twitter, FriendFeed, and more. Dashwire’s FREE service keeps the phone and the web constantly connected, so that the stuff done on one automatically shows up on the other in just a few seconds.

Up to this point, they’ve primarily focused on helping users effortlessly bring their mobile phone and content it captures up to the web. Starting with this week’s release, a major focus for them going forward will also be enabling users to bring the content they care about from the web instantly down to their phones, and allowing them to interact with it in a fast, new user interface.

Their new Dashwire Mobile release is the first of many big steps in this direction. Available on http://m.dashwire.com for Windows Mobile 5.0 and 6 (Symbian S60 beta on schedule for late summer), 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

They’ve pulled together a series of resources providing an overview of the Dashwire Mobile 2.0 experience (in case you’re interested):

• Mobile client overview video: http://dashwire.com/tour/video-mobile
• Solution feature list: http://media1.dashwire.com/press/dashwire-2.0-feature-updates.pdf
• Screenshots: http://media1.dashwire.com/press/dashwire-screenshots.zip

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.

Dashwire, Inc. was founded in 2006 to help unlock the possibilities in mobile phones for people by seamlessly integrating the mobile phone and world it captures with the web. Dashwire is a privately held company headquartered in Seattle, Washington, USA. The company is backed by investors and strategic advisors who helped build the wireless and technology industries at McCaw Cellular, Nextel, China Unicom, Western Wireless, and Microsoft.

Let them know if you have any questions you need answered, feedback about your experience, or recommendations for how they can improve the solution, please post them in your comment.