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One of the mobile apps I’m waiting for most lately is, without any doubt, Yahoo Go 2.0.
What is it? Basically it’s a mobile midlet that combines, in a bundle, the most important Yahoo applications: Yahoo! search, maps, email, messenger, local search, local events (movies) news (including sports, finance, entertainment, and weather), and Flickr. All these goodies packed into a mobile app optimized for the small screen.
Definitely the kind of innovative app that brings bad news to other mobile competitors. There’s email integration (battling with Gmail Mobile that we featured earlier), yahoo maps - going head-to-head with Google mobile maps or even Mobile GMaps, and off course there’s the cool Flickr integration(that makes it extremely easy to upload photos and browse your Flickr library) which kicks the some already established competitors such as Shozu right in the ankles.
To get a better idea of how it all looks and works, check out the flash demo.
The downsides? Off course there are many:
- first of all, very few supported mobile sets : the Windows Mobile platform (where Yahoo Go mobile appeared in the first place), also Blackberry, Nokia, Motorola and Samsung. Therefore, as a proud Sony-Ericsson owner, I wasn’t able yet to test this interesting looking app…
- secondly(and I’m stating the obvious), all of these apps seem to be a bit hungry on your GPRS. Flickr, Maps, News, Messenger, even sponsored searches, they all end up downloading quite a bit, which makes Yahoo Go useful only if you have a good data plan. While this might be the case in US or UK, it certainly isn’t in France or some other European countries, where you end up paying about 1 euro/3megs. Might not seem much at first, but it adds up once you start playing with your Flickr account or messenger list.
The upsides? This seems to be one of the most complete and entertaining mobile apps I’ve seen so far. I’m looking forward for it to be available on SE, so that I give it a test run. In the meantime, looking at the official website and the demos, I’m quite excited: it seems to be the mobile app you’ve never noticed missing, but after you’ve seen it makes you wonder how you could have lived without. Besides, who knows, the mobile data plans are bound to get lower in the future and eventually move to unlimited mobile internet. And when this happens, Yahoo Go will probably be there to stay.
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hey ,i use it on my Nokia 6131 i have recently installed and it does not have MESSENGER !! it has all that stuff with maps , mail and news ,but NO messenger :(( BULLSHIT
Really? Man, this sucks. They advertised it on the website, so I thought they had it…
I ALSO USE SONY ERICSSON AND AM WAITING FOR IT…ARE THEY FOOL…
Well, as I browsed through the site it looks that is a wap link you have to enter in order to use yahoo mess…
I use for some time moby.e-messenger.net, suits me fine.
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Hi Emerald
I have the 6131 .. but when i signed up I was told I would be informed when it is availble for my phone. I have not seen a download link as yet. Could you send the java app to me .. I will give you my email if u agree.
Thanks
i’m using SE K800i i hope there’s a java app for this one.
I downloaded it but everytime i open it, it starts loading and then i get an error message and then another telling me to exit application and restart it. I do it but keep getting the same message.
quisiera tener la aplicacion de yahoo go