Yahoo Releases Mail, Messenger, Search Android Apps

To all the Yahoo! heads out there, your app pack is officially ready!  Yahoo Messenger, Mail and even a search widget were launched today in the Android market.  It’s a little surprising that it took Yahoo! this long to create a search widget knowing that Google has been killing it in the smartphone market because of their search’s integration, but at least they made it.

Here are some of the details from Yahoo!:

With the new Yahoo! Mail App for Android, consumers can:

• Receive push notification of new email messages
• Send emails to contacts from the Yahoo! Address Book as well as contacts in the native phone address book
• Search email messages by sender, recipient, subject and keywords in the body of the email
• Upload photos as attachments directly from camera or the photo gallery
• View and download attachments
• Insert emoticons and rich text formatting into emails
• Effectively manage and organize their Yahoo! Mail messages, folders and manage spam
• Toggle between the Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps with ease

With the new Yahoo! Messenger App for Android, consumers can:

• Easily message friends, check friends’ status updates & availability as well as update their own status & availability
• Send instant messages to friends via SMS text messages*
• Stay connected with full support for multitasking allowing the app to work in the background; with push notifications consumers can easily catch new messages and friend requests
• Full use of emoticons and rich text formatting
• Send photos to friends directly from the phone’s camera or the photo gallery

All free.

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Source: YMobileBlog