Yahoo Go For Mobile 2.0

CNET editors' rating: 4.0 stars Excellent
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Overall score: 8.0 (4.0 stars)
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CNET editors' review

• Reviewed by: Nicole Lee
• Reviewed on: 05/18/2007

When Yahoo Go for Mobile went live a year ago, it promised to bring the full Yahoo suite of applications to the cell phone, and it certainly delivered. A year later, Yahoo has launched Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0, with a completely redesigned look and innovative new features. The software includes a unique mobile search interface called oneSearch, and integration with the popular photo-sharing site Flickr. Also, Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0 is supported on more than 175 devices, which is a far cry from the previous version that was only available for Nokia Series 60 phones. In fact, a few Motorola phones will have the Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0 application preloaded on the device starting in 2007. To find out if you have a compatible phone, you can visit the Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0 site, which is also where you can download the application for free. We tested the service with a Nokia 6126.

Downloading and installing the software couldn't be easier. All you need to do is select your carrier, and then your phone, from the site. Enter in your phone number, and you will then receive a text message with a link to the download. Follow the instructions, and you'll have the Yahoo Go application on your phone in no time. Once it's installed, you can access the Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0 either from the phone's application menu or from its home screen. It'll prompt you for your Yahoo ID once, but then you'll never need to sign in again, as the application will simply remember your Yahoo ID each and every time you start it up. Along the bottom row of the starting screen is a unique carousel of widgets and icons that will provide you with immediate access to a variety of Yahoo services such as Yahoo Local and Maps, news, sports, finance, entertainment, weather, Flickr, and of course, Yahoo Mail.

The first page that pops up is the Yahoo! oneSearch page, with a large search entry field right on top, which we find especially convenient. Yahoo oneSearch works a little differently than the typical Yahoo search: instead of dumping a whole bunch of results on a single page that'll have you scrolling for minutes, it divides the results into different categories and presents them in a miniature, custom Web page. For example, when we searched for "sushi," it brought up a list of local four-star sushi restaurants within San Francisco, Flickr photos of sushi, and a couple of Web and news articles mentioning sushi. If we searched for "San Francisco," we were presented with a local city guide, a calendar of events, a map of the city, the local time, the current weather, local events, Flickr photos, and more. It is a very smart search feature that we only wish was available on more phones.

As was indicated above, one of the more useful features of Yahoo Go for Mobile 2.0 is its strong local features like city guides, local directory information, ratings and reviews of restaurants and shops, and more. The mobile Yahoo Maps interface also provides the ability to search directly for local businesses, with driving directions and real-time traffic updates. The content of Yahoo information sources-- like news, sports, finance, and entertainment--are fairly self-explanatory, but we do want to add that we liked the scrolling news ticker along the bottom of each information page.

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• Average user rating: 3.0 stars out of 7 reviews
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• 1.5 stars

  2 out of 2 people found this review helpful

  "Awful version. 2.0 is worse than 1.0"

  by akarchm01 on July 27, 2007

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• 5.0 stars

  1 out of 2 people found this review helpful

  "Yahoo Go rocks"

  by niravabhavsar on May 18, 2007

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• 5.0 stars

  "Sync Yahoo Adresses with Blackberry 8830"

  by MontanaCNET on November 24, 2008

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