Yahoo has uppped the ante with "Yahoo to Go" mobile package. I installed the product on my Blackberry Curve this morning. Installation went good ...only one issue though ... it kicked all the links in my Apps folder (Blackberry and Google ) out to main screen . For a second I thought may be I lost all my applications , but I found them back pretty soon .. No heartbreak :-)
In terms of interface , its definitely one step ahead of Google mobile Apps. The violet theme and PS3/ PSP type horizontal bar makes it looks of next generation. Frankly , it was an iphone kind of thing on my Blackberry.
I tried maps , finance and "one Search". Everything worked fine. One search comes with a voice activated search which means you can press the call button and yell into your phone to search "Pizza". The search results run in a YTG browser interface which is pretty sleek. You can search for ticker symbols and add the stocks from search to you portfolio. The mail interface is pretty much like gmail on blackberry though gmail appears to be lot faster. The GPS (my location) on maps came with in a meter of accuracy. The good thing , I could see all my old destinations saved on yahoo maps. Didn't get time to try Flickr as most my pics are on Picassa.
Now the more interesting part. Yahoo to Go comes woth Yahoo "Blue print". The Development environment for mobile Apps
Developers can download free development kit. Yahoo provides a free QA environment and ton of code snippets.. but who wants to write these widgets any more ? I still don't know a soul who made a living writing widgets......
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