This morning, a new beefed up version of the Yahoo! application hit Google Play. Inside, Yahoo! looks to be focusing their time on bringing more news to your device, as there is now an “endless visual stream of stories,” along with the ability to personalize your stream with topics you want to follow. To top it off, there is an enhanced web search that features images as well as videos when you make an inquiry from inside the app. 

What’s New:

• Endless visual stream of stories
• Summaries by Yahoo!
• Ability to personalize your stream by select topics you want more stories about
• Revamped web search experience including images and video

Fingers crossed you can read the comments section through the app because that is really the best part about Yahoo’s news section.

Play Link

Cheers Donny!

Official Yahoo! App Updated to Version 1.0, Packs Visual News Stream is a post from: Droid Life

The official Yahoo Mail app received a makeover and a new name today. Now known as “Y Mail,” the app itself follows a new motto of “Fast. Easy. Anywhere.” They made the interface super simple, but also incredibly fast, so that you can access everything in your account at all times and accomplish tasks more quickly. They also made it a similar experience across multiple platforms by releasing a new web client and updating their iOS, Windows Phone, and Android apps.

As you can see in the new Android version, they took a number of ideas from the Android design guidelines. It’s close to being Holo theme, plus we have a slideout panel from the left side to quickly get you into folders or categories. The app also has a pull-to-refresh and a quick-to-access action bar at the bottom. It looks great, especially for those that still use Yahoo Mail.

Play Link

Via:  YMail Blog

Cheers @shanemckeever!

Yahoo Updates Mail App on Android – Renamed to “Y Mail,” Fancy UI Overhaul Included is a post from: Droid Life

If there weren’t already enough ways for people to share and browse photos on the web, then Yahoo! just filled the gap with the release (finally) of their very popular Flickr service in form of an Android application. Users can upload or snap new photos directly into the app, comment on others, view friends’ activity, and then share it all with the world.  We are still trying to figure out why this took so long to create, but we are happy to see it arrive.   

Features:

• Share photos only with the people you want to with easy privacy settings.
• Full screen browsing and slideshows for your photos, your contacts photos or any of the public photos from the global Flickr community.
• Share the story behind your photo with titles, descriptions, comments and tags.
• Keep your track of where you took your photo by keeping your location data automatically through    geotagging.

Market Link (Free)

Cheers Anish!

Yahoo! Releases Official Flickr App For Android is a post from: Droid Life

Yahoo is getting with the times apparantly, and has now added a tab to their front page entitled, “Apps”. Under this new tab you can search between the enormous lists of Android, and iOS applications. Better yet, you can choose applications and send them right to your device from Yahoo. Good looking out, Yahoo.

If searching the browser based Market just wasn’t enough for you, now you have even more options. After playing with it for a few minutes, it definitely does its job well, and the site is very polished. So go download all the Droid Life apps and let us know what you think. Going to stick to the classic Android browser based, or could you see yourself reading Yahoo’s Top News and sifting through apps from now on?

Yahoo App Search

Cheers Aaron!

Yahoo! Adds Mobile Application Searches Right To Their Front Page is a post from: Droid Life

The Yahoo Messenger continues to see some nice improvements with each update and this latest one brings free voice calls and landscape video.  That’s awesome and all right?  Well, at this time, the app only has support for the myTouch 4G and the EVO, which is pretty surprising, especially with so many front-facing camera devices in the wild these days.  Hello Galaxy Tab?  Hello Nexus S?

Updates available in the market for those that can actually use them.

Yahoo IM App Updated to Include Free Voice Calls is a post from: Droid Life

Yahoo updated a couple of its more popular apps, Messenger and Mail, to include some much needed new features.  Messenger now has official support for video chatting on the MyTouch 4G plus “experimental support” on the EVO and zero support for the Galaxy Tab.  Actually, Yahoo apps in general appear not to support ANY Galaxy S devices which is a little odd.  There are only 3 million+ in existence around the world.  The mail app now allows for multiple accounts, lets you preview photos and has a more polished notification system.  Like I said, all “much need” stuff.

*For video chatting to work, you will need both the Yahoo Messenger app and the video add-0n.

Yahoo Messenger | Video Add-on | Yahoo Mail

Via:  Yahoo

Yahoo Updates Messenger to Include Video Chatting, Mail with Multiple Accounts is a post from: Droid Life

I know we’re just now hitting the meat of the NFL season, but for the NBA and NHL fans out there gearing up for their respective openers, Yahoo has your fantasy needs covered.  Yesterday, both apps hit the Android market for free, so be sure to grab them if your league drafts are getting underway.    

This is my first year in almost 7 years to be skipping an NBA league, which means I haven’t had a chance to test out this app yet.  I’m guessing it’ll be just as good as the football version though, but I’m anxious to hear what you guys think.  Maybe I’ll sneak into a last minute head-to-head?

Basketball |  Hockey

Cheers Pete!

Yahoo Release Fantasy Basketball and Hockey Apps is a post from: Droid Life

We weren’t really expecting Yahoo IM video chat to come out for while, but our friends over at XDA Forums managed to find it deep inside the leaked myTouch ROM that’s floating around in the wild.  The app apparently works well over both 3G, 4G and wi-fi as long as your phone has a front-facing camera to support video calling.  Early feedback also suggests that phone-to-phone and phone-to-PC video calls are working, but not for those of you with a Mac.  

To get this bad boy up and working, install both application files below:

*The video add-on will NOT work with the market version of Yahoo IM.  You need to use the version below.

Download:  Yahoo_im.apk
Download:  Yahoo_ imvideo.apk

Any of our EVO or Epic readers had a chance to play with this yet?

Source:  XDA Forums

Cheers to everyone who sent this in!

Download: Yahoo IM Video Chat App, Found in New MyTouch ROM is a post from: Droid Life

Who wants mobile video chatting/calling/stripping on their Android phone from one of the big dogs in the IM world?  Brace yourself as Yahoo Messenger’s video feature was semi-announced and should be headed to both the good guys and the i*hone, allowing video calls to anything capable of running the IM service.

The free app, will be available for both iPhone and Android phones and will allow smartphone users to not only conduct video calls with each other, but with anyone that currently uses Yahoo Messenger for video calls on their PCs, Katz said (Messenger has 81 million users worldwide, according to Yahoo).

And unlike FaceTime, Yahoo’s mobile Messenger video calling app will work not only over a WiFi connection, but over a carrier’s standard wireless network.

These are the announcements we really enjoy hearing.  While we are lacking many devices with cameras that can take advantage of a service like this, you have to assume that they are coming.

Anyone else excited?

Source:  Reuters
Via:  Androinica

Yahoo Messenger Will Soon Have Video Calling is a post from: Droid Life

Yahoo keeps working hard to compete and stay relevant on the Android platform.  After releasing their IM, Mail and Search apps back in July, they’ve added News, Weather, Movies and Finance to the pack over the last couple of days.  For the power Yahoo users out there, you should be pretty excited to see the search giant rounding out their suite of services.  

Weather |  News |  Movies |  Finance

Cheers Stephan!

Yahoo Releases Suite of Android Apps Including News, Weather, Movies and Finance is a post from: Droid Life