Earlier this week, Yahoo! announced a dedicated Yahoo! Mail and Messenger app for Android devices. Before only Gmail by Google offer push email notification support for Android devices and now those with Yahoo! email accounts can now enjoy these features as well. Unfortunately both the Yahoo! Mail & Messenger apps are only available for the Droid, Droid Incredible, and the Nexus One. Keep reading to view the full list of features for both apps.
Yahoo! Mail for Android offers:
- 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
Yahoo! Messenger for Android offers:
- 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
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