Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 Greets Windows Mobile; HTC Announced as a Major Partner

[Darius Wey]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://go.yahoo.com/' target='_blank'>http://go.yahoo.com/</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Continuing to redefine the mobile Internet experience for millions of consumers around the world, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) today announced the availability of gamma version of Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 on Windows Mobile powered devices. Expanding this innovative service to the popular Windows Mobile platform will enable consumers to use it on 75 Windows Mobile devices from major manufacturers. In total the service will be supported by more than 175 different mobile phone models, including more than 100 models available today. Consumers should check for the latest device availability at <a href="http://go.yahoo.com">http://go.yahoo.com</a>. "Consumers have been clamoring for us to bring Yahoo! Go 2.0 to Windows Mobile devices since we launched the service less than two months ago," said Marco Boerries, senior vice president of connected life, Yahoo!. "There are millions of mobile phones on the Windows Mobile platform in the market today and consumers with these devices want to use the most advanced, exciting services available. Our innovative Yahoo! Go 2.0 service finally brings the open Internet to the mobile phone and gives consumers the compelling experience they have been looking for."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/wey-20070308-yahoogo.jpg" /><br /><br />You wanted <a href="http://mobile.yahoo.com/go">Yahoo! Go for Mobile</a> on Windows Mobile and <a href="http://mobile.yahoo.com/go/phones?os=wm">here</a> it is (available for Smartphones now, and for Pocket PCs in April). The service offers centralized access to Yahoo!-powered search, maps, news, weather, finance, photo sharing (via Flickr), and e-mail, and it's set to be <a href="http://www.htc.com/press_room/03-press-070307.htm">preloaded on a good number of HTC devices</a> indefinitely. Alongside Microsoft's Windows Live offering and bits and pieces from Google, there'll certainly be no shortage of mobile services for Windows Mobile. All good, though - more choice, more competition, more innovation.

[jason k]

If you go to the yahoo site for this and click the get now link, then click on
"Click here to see all the phones" , click on the HTC section and then you get a nice "coming soon" and a picture of a HTC S630.

Jason

[redlynr]

This is just a tease. Yahoo! Go is not yet available for pocket pc's (e.g. the 8525), it only currently works with smartphones &amp; blackberrys. I should have paid attention to the last paragraph of the main post.

[bnycastro]

IIRC Yahoo Go Mobile beta had a PocketPC client [I think I still have the beta installer]. Still doesn't seem to have messenger. if it's released as is without messenger I hope it isn't embeded in ROM on the new HTC devices I'd be the first thing I'd want to uninstall hehehe.

[k1darkknight]

Still doesn't seem to have messenger.
Actually, Yahoo appears to have a kind of workaround for devices that don't have a Yahoo messenger app for them. If you point your mobile browser (works on the desktop too, just very text-centric...gee, wonder why...) to http://m.yahoo.com there are links to several Yahoo mobile services, including what appears to be an html version of Yahoo messenger. It MIGHT be java/javascript based, but in either case, it's almost exclusively text-based. Not as 'pretty' as a full application, but hey, it (seemingly) works!

[bnycastro]

i think i'll stick to octro or im+ thanks for the info though maybe i'll check that out when i'm bored or something