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Yahoo have had this available for sometime on Series 60 but for those folks who use Yahoo - you can now get access from your Windows Mobile device!
With their client you can use the following:
Contacts — Stored phone numbers are automatically synched
Photos — Take a picture and it's stored online
Mail — Get notified when new email arrives
It's available for both Windows Mobile Pocket PC's and Smartphone's!
To get started just go to here:
https://go.connect.yahoo.com/go/mobile/on_your_mobi...
Comments
- Anonymous
September 01, 2006
I tried it. Of course, it was already possible to set up a POP3 account to have Your yahoo mail on your phone, which is what I had until this release. So I deleted that account and installed Yahoo! Go, to check it out. It has a couple major advantages over an account set up with WM's own e-mail capabilities, such as that it actually syncs all the folders in your Yahoo account, including ones you might have created yourself, and you can use it to manage mail, moving it between folders, etc, and it'll sync that to your online account. But in the end I went back to using the WM system POP3 account and uninistalled Yahoo! Go. It just seems to slow everything down -- it is not only slower itself, but it seems to slow down my Outlook/Exchange account, too. That might be partly because -- and this is something I really don't like -- it runs as an application, and if you don't keep it running as an application then you won't get your mail automatically.
Someone in one of the usual consultancies quoted by the media -- I think it was Gartner -- said they were unimpressed by this release, and I agree. This is a little application that puts things like your e-mail, Yahoo! News, etc. on your phone with an extra layer of Yahoo! software. That doesn't really get anyone anyone anywhere; all that stuff is already available using tools built into WM 5.0; for example I have a shortcut to Yahoo! News in my browser, and it's quicker and better. Yahoo maybe thinks that this is for non-geek consumers who aren't going to know or be able to work out how to set things up themselves. There's a point to that, but they can still take that approach working with the WM system itself rather than giving people a clunky application. The Gartner chap made the point that if Yahoo would start giving people true push e-mail, THAT would be cool. And he's right. There are small- and medium-sized companies out there offering push e-mail to consumers, using hosted Exchange. Why can't Yahoo! do this? They don't have to talk about their technology; they just need to do it, creating an idiot-proof installer for consumers to set up really cool insta-push e-mail on their phones.
In short, I've checked this out and found it wanting. - Anonymous
September 02, 2006
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September 03, 2006
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September 03, 2006
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September 04, 2006
Fixer, yes, I noticed that. (BAD Yahoo!) But I couldn't find anything in the registry. Do you know where those entries are?