Y!Go (ahead of me)
| Thursday, July 5th, 2007 | --jr |
As you may or may not have heard, Y!Go is (supposedly) hit General Availability, meaning that if you have a phone that can run it, you can... uhm... run it.
I'll also toss in that a lot of folks who've used it really like it. I have no idea how good it is, personally, since I don't have a phone that is supported. It reportedly has maps and local business listings, but also traffic, full y!mail integration (with MS Office document attachment handling), flickr support and I think it even does your laundry, but I'm not sure about that last one. There's a what's new document (PDF) that lists out what all you lucky stiffs who can run this can do with it.
Which, of course, doesn't include me.
Sorry if I sound a bit snarky about this, because it's not directed at the fine Y!Mobile folks. My problems are definitely related to the fact that my current carrier has decided to lock down a whole host of features that should normally be open to 3rd party apps like Y!Go (seriously, I can't even send a photo from my phone without ponying up a surcharge, and the built in GPS? Guess what else I get to pay to use?)
So, if you've got one of the lucky phones that are actually useful, g'wan and try it out. It won't cost you a dime.
Unlike me.
Who's seriously thinking about getting a new phone.
July 6th, 2007 at 11:03 am
I’ll be snarky — I’m a huge Yahoo! user (former employee) yet my phone has been listed as “coming soon” for six months.
In fact the graphic that’s been on the Go home page for those six months says to get it for your Windows phone, yet NO Windows phones are supported. The text that reads “We found 79 phones that work with Yahoo! Go” is totally BS.
That’s terrible.
July 7th, 2007 at 7:42 am
I am also a huge Y! user (though never an employee). I would concur with Jason. The coming soon badges on virtually all the phones besides blackberry is very frustrating!
Six months is a long time to tease.
My carrier - T-Mobile - has nothing to do with my phone which I bought directly from the manufacturer. So that’s a dead end excuse.
July 7th, 2007 at 8:14 am
Well, if it’s any help, I’m not really going to argue too terribly much.
I know that there have been efforts made to support a WIDE variety of phones (well, if the internal docs and tarballs are anything to go by), but there’s always been some issue with getting them to production, ranging from features that couldn’t be accessed to getting proper third party signatures from the OS providers.
I really kinda wish the mobile folks would be a bit more forthcoming about the sticking points they’re hitting rather than the dead silence, but sadly, I don’t work with those folks.