Yahoo! gets cuddly with all of HTC's Windows Mobile handsets
by Brian White 
posted Mar 8th 2007 at 8:29PM
As Yahoo! and Google battle it out old-style to find out who is king of the mobile web these days, Yahoo! had already stepped it up a notch from offering its Yahoo! Go service on Nokia phones via Symbian's S60 to offering the same experience on that Windows Mobile handset -- but now, it'll be on quite a few WM handsets. With that notion, Yahoo! signed on HTC (maker of a healthy dose of WM handsets) to embed Yahoo! into almost every HTC Windows Mobile device -- including recent models (we guess via a firmware update) and all new and upcoming HTC models as well. So, in addition to Yahoo! Go on Symbian-powered handsets and Windows Mobile handsets made by HTC, the California company is embedding Yahoo! services into standard handset models from Nokia, Motorola, Samsung and LG as well. Google -- you got a comeback for that?
Filed under: Software, HTC, Windows Mobile, Misc
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Adrian @ Mar 8th 2007 9:11PM
Yes I do have a comeback.....ITS ABOUT DAMN TIME!!!
pgunton @ Mar 8th 2007 10:17PM
There's one HTC phone that Yahoo! Go 2.0 will NOT work on. Yahoo! Go 2.0 will not work on the T-Mobile Dash phones. Well not until April sometime. Tech journalists need to do more research about this.
T @ Mar 8th 2007 10:21PM
Great... First it was crapware pre-installed on your new PC, now you get crapware on your new phone too! I'm going to guess that HTC doesn't pass any of that payola back to the consumer by discounting the phone. Free Google phone anyone?
jim @ Mar 9th 2007 4:40PM
Yeah, but the older one was better. It integrated with your built in email and contacts. It was like blackberry push/sync for yahoo.
Mirz @ Mar 9th 2007 7:08PM
I'm wondering if they will be able to do this without carriers approval. I'm pretty sure the carriers have the final say about preloaded software.