Yahoo announces app basket for smartphones: MWC 09
February 18th, 2009 by Annkur
Yahoo is all set to encash the smartphone boom. While Google has shown huge commitment to the mobile platform, Yahoo certainly realised its importance. Yahoo apps / utilities package would be available for the iPhone, Windows Mobile, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and others.
Features include:
- Integrated Opera Mini 4.2
- Search via Yahoo! oneSearch with voice command: it allows users to launch searches simply by speaking the keywords.
- Maps: improved location tools
- Access to email accounts including Gmail, Windows Live, Hotmail and AOL Mail.
- Access to social network accounts including Bebo, Dopplr, Facebook, Flickr, Friendster, Last.fm, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube
- Access to Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Address Book and Yahoo! Calendar
- Easy access to favorite content: websites, sport, news, RSS feed, weather, stocks and more with Yahoo! onePlace tool
- Widgets for various web services
The service is currently available in beta and would be main stream by Q2 2009.
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