Yahoo! launched Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps for Android as well as a Yahoo! Search Widget for Android. for seamless, integrated experiences on their mobile devices.
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The Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger Android apps are available globally as free downloads available in the Android Market, supporting OS 2.0 or newer.
With the new Yahoo! Mail App for Android, consumers can:
- Receive push notification of new email messages.
- Send emails to contacts from the Yahoo! Address Book as well as to contacts in the native phone address book .
- Search email messages by sender, recipient, subject and keywords.
- Upload photos as attachments directly from the phone's camera or the photo gallery.
- View and download attachments.
- Insert emoticons and rich text formatting into emails.
- Effectively manage and organize their Yahoo! Mail messages, folders, and spam.
- Easily toggle between the Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps.
In addition to providing a robust consumer experience, the Yahoo! Mail app for Android offers advertisers an opportunity to reach a highly engaged mobile audience. Samsung is the inaugural advertiser with a rich media display advertising unit.
With HTML5 Yahoo! Mail consumers can:
- View HTML messages; compose rich text messages, reply, search emails, and access folders while offline .
- Manage folders and create smart folders with messages from key contacts .
- Surface photos and video attachments directly within the mail preview .
- Enjoy a seamless experience with Yahoo! Mail across mobile and desktop.
Additionally, now Yahoo! News includes an all-new layout with animated visual effects and navigation that uses touch gestures to deliver a compelling news experience. Yahoo! brings the news to life with photos, slideshows, and video features, and provides consumers with an option to explore related articles.