Last week I heard about DashWire from one of my friends. The concept sounded pretty cool to me and I decided to give it a shot. What do I have to say about it? I am delighted!
Dashwire let's you maintain a backup of your phone contacts, SMS, IE favorites, ringtones, pictures and videos on the cloud. All you got to do is to first signup on the website and then download their tiny WM App on your WM phone. This app synchronizes everything from your phone to the cloud. Next time when you switch to phone, just install this nifty cab file and viola! you got your settings back!
What I love the most out of Dashwire is the ability to send SMS from the browser. This SMS gets routed through your mobile phone using your GSM network. But the convenience it offers is awesome. You can also browse all the ringtones stored on your phone from the web UI and clicking the play button the site will literally play the tune on your phone!
You can configure Dashwire to post your status updates to Facebook and Twitter so that when you change it on your phone UI, it reflects at these popular micro blogging sites.
To conclude - DashWire is ActiveSync on steroids. I wish ActiveSync/WMDC gives me this kind of functionality out of the box.