Re: manage contacts from phone, 2 way sync
 

I use mail2web for the email push of all my gmail and other accounts. Also the activesync between mail2web and my phone is 2-way. Any change I make on my phone is updated on the site and any change on the site is updated on my phone. After a reflash of the phone all I have to do is setup the exchange server options on the phone with mail2web's info and all my contacts are back on my phone. I love it.

Re: manage contacts from phone, 2 way sync
 

Outlook/activesync is really being fazed out fast, I don't even use it unless I have an app I absolutely cannot find a CAB for (rare). I do believe there is a way of getting the changes made on the PPC to over-write Outlook (please chime in if there is an easier way), I think if you delete the relationship on both the PC and PPC, and start from scratch, that when you first sync, and chose info to sync, you can set it to over-write PPC files to Outlook or vise-versa). As I mentioned though...I don't use it any longer, so I am not sure.

As far as DashWire vs mail2web, I prefer DashWire. As shaggylive pointed out, unless you use push email, it isn't too beneficial (I don't use that) the drawback of DashWire is that you don't have a physical file on your PC. You can access it at any time on the web, but I use a backup app to create a physical backup for the PC.