Yahoo! moves to Android: Mail, Messenger, and Search now available

Arguably a little late to the party, Yahoo! today announced the release of their very first Android apps for Messenger and Mail, as well as a Yahoo! search widget for your home screen.

The Messenger app does pretty much what you’d expect: it allows you to chat with your Yahoo!/MSN friends, and can run in the background (with push notifications) for that always-on availability. If you live in Canada, Indonesia, India, Kuwait, Malaysia, Philippines, Pakistan, Thailand, United States, or Vietnam, you can also use the app to send SMS to friends, which will appear in the current conversation. Oh, and it supports emoticons, because it aint IM without emoticons.

The Mail app is also a no-brainer, and allows you to check, search, organise, and send mail from your Yahoo! email account, as well as download/upload attachments. It can use both your Yahoo! address book, as well as the one on your phone, so you should be able to find the email address you need. And, like the Messenger app, it also supports push notifications and emoticons.

As you can see in the screenshot, there is a button in both of the apps that allows you to switch between Messenger and Mail. I guess there’s a need for that.

And, finally, the Search Widget does pretty much everything that the Google version does, including local search, voice search, and suggestions as you type.

If you like what you hear, you can download the applications from the Anrdroid Market by scanning the barcodes below. Otherwise, a quick market search for “Yahoo” will also do the trick.

And don’t forget to check out the gallery below for some screenshots.

[via Talk Android]

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