Yahoo! claims to have come up with new mobile products and services that often create a win-win situation among users. Presently the company has expanded its utility by introducing Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps as well as the Yahoo! Search widget for Android devices.
The novel tools according to Yahoo should allow users to connect effortlessly to not just people but also things that matter the most as per their convenience. Keeping up with the latest HTML5 technology, Yahoo! is introducing quick and beneficial Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! News sites specifically for the iPhone and iPod Touch as well. These new products will help enhance the e-mail experience for customers who use Yahoo! Mail, Messenger, Search and News on their handsets.
“Yahoo! keeps more than 600 million consumers around the world connected to the people and things that matter to them most wherever and whenever they want. With the availability of our world-class Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps for Android and by harnessing the latest in HTML5, we’re making it easier than ever for consumers to access fast, reliable, and feature-rich Yahoo! experiences across some of the fastest growing platforms in the market,” shares David Ko, senior vice president, Americas, Audience, Mobile, and Local for Yahoo!
The applications are claimed to be visually delightful as well while new functionality and other enhancements optimized for the Android platform further up the ante. They provide more than 300 million Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger users a seamless communication experience for easy access. Sharing information on Android phones has also been made effortless.
The Yahoo! Mail App for Android in particular has numerous features that should help customers use it effectively for specific purposes. They can receive push notification of new email messages and emails can be sent to both contacts from the Yahoo! address book as well as the phone address book. Troublesome searches are a thing of the past as this app help users search for emails by sender, recipient, subject and other keywords.
Users can personalize their accounts by uploading pictures and also send photos to friends from the phone’s camera or the photo gallery. They can also view and download attachments and add emoticons and rich text formatting into emails. Users can manage and organize their Yahoo! Mail messages, folders and spam efficiently. They can also swap easily between the Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps. Yahoo! Mail app for Android provides advertisers a chance to reach out to a highly engaged mobile audience. Samsung claims to be the inaugural advertiser with a rich media display advertising unit.
The Yahoo! Messenger App for Android in addition helps users connect easily with their friends and check status updates as well as update their own status and availability. Users can send instant messages to their friends via text messages. It also helps users multitask and continue to stay connected with the app working in the background. Consumers can grasp new messages and friend request with push notifications. Photos can now also be sent to friends straight from the phone’s camera or the photo gallery courtesy this app.
Most of us, we’re certain cannot imagine living without the internet and Yahoo! seems to know it well. The company’s Search Widget provides customers with one click access to Yahoo! Search. This function is easily available on the home screen once it is saved as a widget. This application has a voice search that makes it convenient for users and also Search Assist for quick suggestions and recommendations. It also features the auto locate technology that does requires minimum intervention with Yahoo! Search providing answers as quick as possible.
Currently the Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps are available as free downloads. The Yahoo! Search Widget is available for free in the U.S. The tools are available for download in the Android Market and support OS 2.0 or newer versions.