Yahoo! Announces Launch of its New Mobile Service
February 17, 2009 11:48 AM | Yahoo | Comments (1)
 With a rich design and interactivity that leverages the capabilities of today's mobile devices, Yahoo! Mobile will offer an open environment within which consumers can bring together their favorite content and services from across the Internet. Consumers will be able to: |
Discover: via results from Yahoo!'s award-winning mobile search, editor-selected content, and new maps tools.
- Stay Connected: through access to their email and social network accounts from the most popular Web providers, as well as instant messaging, address book and calendar tools.
- Stay Informed: by bringing together favorite content - websites, sports teams, news sources, RSS feeds, weather, stocks, horoscopes and more - into a single location.
- The mobile Web and iPhone versions of Yahoo! Mobile are planned to include the following features:
- Discover
- Yahoo! oneSearch - Yahoo!'s award-winning mobile search service providing the most current, relevant answers you need.
- Today - The most interesting stories buzzing on the Internet right now, selected by Yahoo!'s editorial team.
- Connect
- Yahoo! oneConnect - Yahoo!'s service designed to provide consumers everything they need to stay in touch with the people about whom they care:
- Email - Access to Yahoo! Mail and other popular email service providers, including Gmail(R), Windows Live Hotmail and AOL(R) Mail.
- Pulse - Access totheir social networks, including Bebo(R), Dopplr, Facebook(R), Flickr(R), Friendster(R), Last.fm(R), MySpace(R), Twitter and YouTube.
- Yahoo! Messenger - An upgraded version of Yahoo!'s popular mobile instant messaging service.
- Yahoo! Address Book - Keeps consumers' contacts always handy and in sync.
- Yahoo! Calendar - View, add and edit appointments when users are away from their PCs.
- Yahoo! News - Breaking headlines across popular topics.
- Yahoo! onePlace - Access and manage your favorite content, all from one location. Its "Add Anything" functionality is a simple-to-use search and browse process that helps users find and add what they want. Consumers can add their favorite interests from a growing selection of popular categories including news topics and sources, RSS feeds, weather conditions, sports scores, stock quotes, websites/blogs, horoscopes and movie theaters.
- The smartphone version of Yahoo! Mobile will include the above functionality, plus:
- Yahoo! oneSearch with Voice - Allowing users to launch searches by simply speaking.
- Maps - Powerful improved tools that let consumers locate, learn about and get directions to points of interest.
- Opera Mini 4.2 - An integrated version of the world's most popular mobile web browser, with easy return to the Yahoo! Mobile app, that launches when web site access is needed.
- Widgets - Enhanced mobile-optimized experiences for services from Yahoo! and other brands. Users can browse, add and remove these at anytime according to their tastes.
AVAILABILITY OF YAHOO! MOBILE
A managed beta program for Yahoo! Mobile has started today. Consumers interested in participating should enter http://mobile.yahoo.com into their phone's browser.
Details on the upcoming general public release for Yahoo! Mobile are as follows:
For the mobile Web:
- Launch timing: expected late March 2009
- Devices: those running WebKit-based browsers (e.g. iPhone and iPod touch, many Nokia Series 60 and Android devices), Opera Mini 4.x, Windows Mobile devices with Internet Explorer Mobile, and the BlackBerry(R) Bold and BlackBerry Storm browsers
- For iPhone:
- Launch timing: expected late March 2009
- For smartphones:
- Launch timing: expected late May 2009
- Devices: hundreds of select models from RIM, Windows Mobile, Nokia S60 and 40, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola.
- At launch, each version of Yahoo! Mobile is planned to be available for the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, India, Indonesia and the Philippines. Versions for other countries will roll out over the remainder of 2009.
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Comments
That seems like a really nifty tool, too bad I don't have a smart phone.
Posted by: John Kim | February 17, 2009 12:32 PM
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