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Yahoo rolled out Yahoo Mobile for web, iPhone and smartphones


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Yahoo has making it presence known on CTIA 2009 with numbers of important products for it mobile division. Other than the introduction of Yahoo Messenger for iPhone, Yahoo also introduce its brand new mobile services called  Yahoo Mobile.

Yahoo Mobile was designed with everyone in mind, as there are 3 version available for web,  iPhone (not exist on previous version)and other smartphone. Yahoo Mobile was first announced to public last February.

As comparison, Yahoo’s previous mobile services, known as Yahoo One Search(which is now part of Yahoo Mobile) is accessible via m.yahoo.com .

Under the hood, there are 5 sections called Featured News, Yahoo News, My Interests, Connect and More Yahoo Service. The first 2 options are news from Yahoo News, which shows US and global news. It’s best if Yahoo could change this, to show the local news, which is more relevant to the user where this app installed.

On My Interest, this section allow you to choose what you like to do, and shown it here. You can add stuff that interest you most such as RSS feed of you favorite blog, bookmark, whether news, stock update and etc.

Over to Connect, which is the best part for me, it allow you to sign in and view your favorite email and social media updates. There are Yahoo Mail of course, Gmail, Delicious, MySpace, Yahoo Messenger and etc. More Yahoo services are available on the More section.

Overall, Yahoo Mobile is  feature rich application which provide greater experience to the users. Yahoo Mobile can be downloaded directly from  iPhone App Store.  1 thing to note is,  if your iPhone run on OS 2.1, somehow Yahoo Mobile will crash intermittently.

Some screen shots.

Admin 2 April 2009 mobile app and web , , , , No Comments

Yahoo targeting mobile web app market with Yahoo Mobile

yahoo mobile Yahoo targeting mobile web app market with Yahoo Mobile

Yahoo unveiled its own mobile web application service with the newly enhanced Yahoo Mobile. There are 3 major components under Yahoo Mobile is mobile web application, iPhone application and application designed for other smarphones such as Nokia, Blackberry and Windows Mobile powered smartphones.

Lied as the foundation of Yahoo Mobile is Yahoo OneSearch,  Yahoo oneConnect which consist of Yahoo’s own services such as email, Yahoo Messanger, Yahoo Calendar. Opera Mini, Yahoo Maps and Yahoo news are among others that will be bundled together with Yahoo Mobile.

What differentiate Yahoo from the rest of major search engines is,  Yahoo doesn’t built mobile phone platform or something that related to it. Unlike Google which has Android under its chest, and Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.5, which both are the backbone of smartphones nowadays, Yahoo has no such thing, which created huge gap with its rivals on this mobile platform.

What Yahoo tried to offer is already exist on most smarphones, which usually bundled and integrated together with the OS and ready to use.  So Yahoo Mobile  is seen here just like another  ’app’ or ‘add-ons’ that trying to fill the gap on the default applications currently lacking with.

But Yahoo Mobile might has slight advantage over its rival, when its applications is compatible to run all platforms. But at the end of the day, it depend on how good the application is, and the willingness of users to try and use the application.

Yahoo Mobile beta version is vailable for trial now.

Admin 18 February 2009 Software , , , No Comments
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