The distinct partnership between Yahoo and Samsung has now been expanded. With this collaboration, Samsung would distribute services from Yahoo! on several handsets from Samsung counting those running on the Samsung bada as well as Android platforms.
Well, the services are Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Front Page, Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Flickr, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Contacts, Yahoo! Calendar, and Yahoo! Weather. This exclusive affiliation can provide numerous more Samsung device owners effortless access to Yahoo!’s major services.
David Ko, senior vice president, Audience, Mobile and Local for Yahoo!, commented, By making our most popular Yahoo! services available on Samsung mobile devices around the world, we’re providing consumers with personally relevant mobile Internet experiences that make it easy for them to stay connected to what’s important to them and explore the full potential of their device. We’re thrilled to deepen our relationship with Samsung and look forward to continuing to drive the global adoption of mobile Internet services.”
Kenny Lee mentioned, vice president of content planning at Samsung, remarked, “We want to provide our customers with the best possible services designed to enhance their mobile experience. Our relationship with Yahoo! continues to grow and benefit our global consumer base, who wants access popular Yahoo! services from their Samsung phone.”
Samsung mobile devices may come pre-installed with one or more Yahoo! Services. With Yahoo! Mail, users can read, reply and send mail. They can sort out messages by customizable groups. Yahoo! Messenger can facilitate people to message their friends in real time. With Yahoo! Contacts and Calendar, users can look up and/or include new contact information and can also update their calendar.
Yahoo! Mobile Front Page can bring together users’ preferred content and services from anywhere across the Internet to a single place. With Yahoo! News, users can receive world news on their phone. Yahoo! Finance enables users to be up-to-date with the current scenario of the financial world. With Yahoo! Weather, users can look out weather forecasts. Yahoo! Flicker gives people the access to mail and share pictures. And last but not the least Yahoo! Search facilitates users to search for whatever information they want.
These services are geared up to arrive on Samsung phones globally, most probably from May 2010.