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I don't believe this!!! Since purchasing my 8900, I have been told that the YahooGo! mobile app is not supproted/available for my device. I would have to wait for the NEW Beta to come out for testing if I wanted it. I signed up a few months ago and waited.
Today, this is what I received via email from an AUTOMATED Yahoo mail delivery service...
Yahoo! has decided to cease development of the Yahoo! Mobile smartphone app
effective Wednesday, May 20th. So you will not be provided access to the
beta program for this product.
For the time being, we will be focusing our efforts on the newly-launched
Yahoo! Mobile experience for browsers (available at new.m.yahoo.com) and
for the iPhone (available via the Apple App Store).
We really want to thank you for your interest in being a beta tester. The
feedback we receive during these programs is extremely helpful in improving
the customer experience across all of Yahoo!s mobile products.
In the meantime, stay tuned for more exciting new mobile product releases
from Yahoo!. Theres a lot coming and we want to hear your feedback!
Many thanks,
The Yahoo! Mobile team
I have been a loyal Yahoo user for years, then was forced in January to start using the Google mobile app due to the new BlackBerry purchase. Now look what I get. Ugh. Why lead everyone on... (I always had access to the web app. Nothing new.)05-18-09 07:35 AMLike 0 -
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- I got the same email this morning. I had signed up for beta testing a new Yahoo! email app for BB. The explanation that they're using their resources to work on "newly-launched Yahoo! Mobile experience for browsers" is not very encouraging, as I see nothing of interest there. Bummer. I've liked Yahoo! for a long time, in spite of Google's popularity, which I still don't understand.05-18-09 08:04 AMLike 0
- I hope I am posting this in the correct area, please move it if it is not in the correct forum...
I don't believe this!!! Since purchasing my 8900, I have been told that the YahooGo! mobile app is not supproted/available for my device. I would have to wait for the NEW Beta to come out for testing if I wanted it. I signed up a few months ago and waited.
Today, this is what I received via email from an AUTOMATED Yahoo mail delivery service...
Yahoo! has decided to cease development of the Yahoo! Mobile smartphone app
effective Wednesday, May 20th. So you will not be provided access to the
beta program for this product.
For the time being, we will be focusing our efforts on the newly-launched
Yahoo! Mobile experience for browsers (available at new.m.yahoo.com) and
for the iPhone (available via the Apple App Store).
We really want to thank you for your interest in being a beta tester. The
feedback we receive during these programs is extremely helpful in improving
the customer experience across all of Yahoo!s mobile products.
In the meantime, stay tuned for more exciting new mobile product releases
from Yahoo!. Theres a lot coming and we want to hear your feedback!
Many thanks,
The Yahoo! Mobile team
I have been a loyal Yahoo user for years, then was forced in January to start using the Google mobile app due to the new BlackBerry purchase. Now look what I get. Ugh. Why lead everyone on... (I always had access to the web app. Nothing new.)05-18-09 08:10 AMLike 0 - I'm sick of people pandering to the iPhone. If the curve (in all it's iterations) outsold the iPhone last quarter, why does everybody get all geeky about it and ONLY do development for that "lofty" platform? Yahoo sucks anyway and will probably be out of business/consumed by Microsoft within the year anyway.
But, I do agree that Yahoo needs to step up their game. Checking the Bloomberg stats for them is NOT encouraging. I have to admit I still miss my YahoGo! on my previous BlackBerry. LOL.05-18-09 08:24 AMLike 0 -
At least they could try to update the YahooGo! 3, for 4.6+ devices, instead of scrapping the new Beta, AND leaving 4.6+ users without an app.
I miss it.05-18-09 10:10 AMLike 0 -
- I use Yahoo Mail only because it is the only free mail service that offers true two-way reconciliation for my inbox. If I read it or delete in on the BB, it happens in my web mailbox. If I read or delete it in the web mailbox, it shows read or is deleted from the BB.
I have to say I am very frustrated not being able to sync my contacts and calendar OTA. I've partially gotten around the calendar issue by subscribing to my Google calendar in my Yahoo calendar and syncing the BB to my Google calendar. But I shouldn't have to do this. As much as I prefer the Yahoo Mail interface to Google's, if Google ever gets their OTA reconciliation working, I'll be switching.05-24-09 11:24 AMLike 0 - i installed Yahoo Go last night. It reminds me of TweetGenius, your icons scroll, etc, but you have to go through so many loopholes, ESPECIALLY if you want to connect to FaceBook, which is the ONLY social application that works.
But on the mobile site, you can log in and see your facebook and twitter feeds, its pretty damn sweet.
Other than that, you aren't missing anything.05-24-09 12:25 PMLike 0
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