A cornerstone of Ed Zander's
keynote address this morning centered around Yahoo's
exploits in the mobile space. Its first serious foray, Go for Mobile, wasn't really much of a game-changer in either of its major flavors (
Windows Mobile and
S60) for a simple reason: the app wasn't much more than a thin facade over a handful of Yahoo WAP sites. That's all good, though -- it's coming back strong with version 2.0, and this time, it looks like there's a little more special sauce mixed in. Yahoo's working closely with Motorola to deliver Go 2.0 out of the gate (hence the keynote tie-in), which we get the impression will find its way onto many of Motorola's upcoming models before they even leave the factory. Unlike the first version, Go 2.0 looks like it provides a fairly rich experience, partially thanks to integration with Yahoo's also-announced "oneSearch" mobile search. The system attempts to provide the user with "answers" rather than simply a series of links -- relevant content that is related to the search terms like stock prices, weather, and movie times, much of which can be integrated with a device's location-based services to provide local results as well. Though the beta is available as of today on a good number of devices, Yahoo is definitely playing up the Motorola angle, peppering its website with shots of the HSDPA-capable
V3xx and
V6 maxx models. Look for the compatibility list to expand significantly over the course of the year, and with the V3xx getting hyped like this, we wouldn't be surprised to see
Cingular's rendition of it roll out any minute now.
posted Jan 8th 2007 5:19PM
WHEN IS YAHOO GO! ANY VERSION GOING TO BE AVAILABLE FOR HELIO PHONES?
Where is this app for Windows Mobile 5.0 devices like the Cingular 8525? I have the first version of Yahoo Go on my device - and when I check to see if it available for my phone - I get "There are no plans to offer for this phone" Can they be serious? I expected to be told to check back or leave an email to be notified when available. Can they just leave out the entire WinMo market of devices? I want this app (Yahoo Go 2.0) on my device!
I have been looking forward to this being a Yahoo slave. I hope my fantasy of this being available on a Verizon version of the Moto Maxx by May or June (when my new every two come up) and I will be thrilled.
I'm pretty excited about this app... I bought the Nokia 6682 specifically for it, and was not at all disappointed (mostly because of the auto-synching of the contacts, calendar, inbox, etc in my phone with that in my Yahoo mailbox/calendar/contacts/etc).
2.0 looks like it'll blow the first version out of the water, and I'm glad that the 6682 was still on the compatibility list. Though I must say that seeing it available on so many devices on so many carriers is like seeing my favorite underground/indy musicians go mainstream... :-P
Now I'm just waiting for Yahoo to SMS me whenever they're ready to allow more downloads of the app; I guess the downloads were limited due to it's beta phase.
I was surprises to see that they practically have ignored windows mobile 5 users and took the old version of yahoo mobile out. It would have been good for them at least to leave a link of the old version till they get the beta 2 for windows mobile 5.
This is very disappointing.
Yahoo! go 2.0 is not working in my mobile Nokia N70
Yahoo! 1.0 was working properly