yahoomail

Latest

  • Yahoo! Mail for iPad and iPhone contains tasty HTML5 goodness

    by 
    Steve Sande
    Steve Sande
    08.18.2010

    While Yahoo! Mail isn't as wildly popular as, say, Gmail, there are still a lot of people who have Yahoo! Mail accounts. After all, you need a Yahoo! account to use Flickr, so many people sign up for the free accounts without a second thought. For the most part, the Web-based mail client has been a real yawner -- until now. Yahoo! has rolled out an HTML5-optimized version of Yahoo! Mail for iPad, following a successful rollout of a similar Web app for iPhone. To get to the newly-refreshed mobile sites, you just point Safari on the iPad (or iPhone for that matter) to http://mail.yahoo.com. The iPad app is very usable, particularly in landscape mode where the side-by-side panes have room to "stretch out" for readability. When you're offline, Yahoo! Mail uses HTML5's local caching capabilities to let you read and search messages that you've previously received. Organization of messages is made easy by using a full search function and personal folders, and there are preset Smart Folders that collect messages from those in your Contact list, save attachments from incoming mail, and store photos that have been mailed to you. When photos are attached to an email, you can view them as previews in the inbox view or in their full size by tapping a Full View button. If you're a current Yahoo! Mail user or are just looking for a new free email account, you might want to give the new HTML5 mail sites for iPad and iPhone a try. They're surprisingly clean, trouble-free, useful, and most importantly, free.

  • Yahoo Mail adds text messaging support

    by 
    Chris Ziegler
    Chris Ziegler
    08.27.2007

    Among a host of other improvements getting rolled out to Yahoo Mail this week comes this little gem: integrated support for SMS. Already having supported email and chat directly from the Mail client itself, text messaging seems like a logical jump, offering users the capability to fire up a text conversation with little more than a phone number and a few lines of text (remember, keep it brief!). Initially available to folks in the US, Canada, India, and the Philippines, the service should do a fine job of burning through hundreds of your closest friends' text messaging plans -- a solid reason to start upgrading to those unlimited packages that carriers are starting to push, we reckon.