Yahoo Mobile 2.0 To Launch Friday
Yahoo is set to roll out an upgrade to its free mobile suite of services with improved search, e-mail and photo management as well as other enhancements. Dubbed Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0, the service has been in a test phase since its introduction back in January, but this Friday Yahoo will take the wraps off and make the service available to anyone in the U.S.
Along with the official version for U.S. customers Yahoo will roll out a beta version in 13 additional countries.
Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0 is free to download and the company says the service will support more than 200 different mobile phones at launch and will add 200 more by the end of the year.
Improvements in the new version include speed boosts as well as some new features like support for more attachments in Yahoo Mail (including PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel documents) and access to folders within Yahoo Mail.
Yahoo is also touting improvements to its OneSearch Mobile tool as well as the mobile mapping features. Mobile 2.0 now supports satellite and hybrid map views and includes real-time traffic information and GPS services on devices that support it.
Curiously absent from Yahoo’s preview announcement is any mention of the iPhone, but if you’re a heavy Yahoo user on your current device the mobile upgrade should be good news.
And we’ll be sure to give Yahoo’s claims some real-world testing when the new software is available. If you’d like to check out the hype, Yahoo has posted a video intro that gives an overview of the service.
