Yahoo Mail adds text messaging support

Among a host of other improvements getting rolled out to Yahoo Mail this week comes this little gem: integrated support for SMS. Already having supported email and chat directly from the Mail client itself, text messaging seems like a logical jump, offering users the capability to fire up a text conversation with little more than a phone number and a few lines of text (remember, keep it brief!). Initially available to folks in the US, Canada, India, and the Philippines, the service should do a fine job of burning through hundreds of your closest friends' text messaging plans -- a solid reason to start upgrading to those unlimited packages that carriers are starting to push, we reckon.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 27th 2007 1:14PM]

Back when the new GUI was in beta - I decided to "switch back" so that I could use Yahoo! mail on my Playstation. But now that there's new features I cant seem to switch to the new one. Any ideas on why?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 27th 2007 1:21PM]

so now when I want to send a text message from yahoo mail I dont have to add the @tmomail.net or whichever suffix the carrier has for the person I'm email-texting. I say minor improvement.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 27th 2007 5:10PM]

maybe i'm just a dumbass, but this doesn't seem to be a universal rollout. i'm in the usa and i can't find this feature anywhere. i only have an option to compose and that option only gives me emails to compose. bah humbug.

[dodgerfan Posted Aug 27th 2007 6:38PM]

Its being slowly rolled out over the next several weeks... http://ymailupdates.com/blog/archives/59#comments (see 3rd comment)

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 27th 2007 8:33PM]

Thanks Jane, missed that. Glad someone here is paying attention and not just whining like the rest of us!

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 28th 2007 4:42PM]

I don't have this option either and I've looked everywhere. Mine just says "Check mail" and "compose" there is no drop down list. Is anyone else as confused as I am?

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 27th 2007 7:02PM]

Boy I know I am! I was kinda excited about this - and have been trying to figure out if I have it on my existing Yahoo acct. (don't use the account all that much any more but don't want to lose it)

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 28th 2007 12:22PM]

The only problem is that their current beta version of Web Mail doesn't work well with Yahoo Messenger. I constantly have Yahoo Instant Messenger falsly tell me I have unread emails when I know I just cleared out all of my messages.