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Yahoo! Releases iPhone App, Posts Video Preview of Messenger

Thursday April 2, 2009 11:36 am PDT by Eric Slivka
Yahoo! has released a dedicated iPhone application [App Store, Free], as well as a new Yahoo! Mobile site for use by other Internet-enabled mobile phones, providing integrated access to a number of Internet features.

- Yahoo! oneSearch uses your location to find what you want, where you are
- The hottest news topics and sources
- Your web-based Emails accounts from Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, AOL Mail and Hotmail
- Status and photo updates from social networks including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Bebo, Friendster, and others
- Your RSS feeds (including My Yahoo! content) easily arranged and managed
- Web Sites, Sports, Stocks, Movie Theaters, Horoscopes
- ...and much, much more!

Yahoo! has also posted a video preview of their upcoming Yahoo! Messenger application for the iPhone.

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Drumjim85
Posted: 41 months ago
I'll stick with google. thanks.
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lftrghtparadigm
Posted: 41 months ago
Buggy on 3.0b2.

On 2.2.1 its seems very fluid far. Nice app. Working to see how much you can do within this one app, which is its purpose and value.

Update: Animation and features are great, but it still crashed after adding a few things.
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mkrishnan
Posted: 41 months ago
From the video, the chat seems fairly good (although I really never use Yahoo's IM anymore -- too many IM spambots and weirdos). In the absence of push updates, the idle feature is nice, also.
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nutmac
Posted: 41 months ago
Yahoo! has 3 iPhone apps with similar functionalities, oneConnect, Inquisitor, and this generic Yahoo! app.

Both oneConnect and Yahoo! can be used for IM and email, although oneConnect is more optimized implementation of the two. That said, it seems a fourth Yahoo! app demonstrated on the video (Messenger) will put an ax to it.

Inquisitor and this Yahoo! are both used for search, although Inquisitor does a better job using semi original UI.

Playing with this app for few minutes, I am not sure what it's supposed to be good at. And I hope Yahoo! isn't wasting resource by dedicating separate teams for each app.
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Alisstar
Posted: 41 months ago
I'm putting in my name and password into the app to see my messenger list and it's not accepting it. Yes, I verified it about 4 times to make sure I wasn't typing something wrong. It still didn't work. Reporting the bug to Yahoo after this post.
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barefootman
Posted: 41 months ago
What possible reason would there be for not making this available for download in every country's iTunes store?

That sort of thing really pisses me off. :mad:
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Randman
Posted: 41 months ago
Legalities probably.
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catracho
Posted: 41 months ago
Learn M$, learn!
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The Phazer
Posted: 41 months ago
Once we get push a YM app will be nice.

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grimm123
Posted: 41 months ago
with this app, why would I need to pay for text messaging? the video shows that you can text and receive text messages for free. Or did I miss something?
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