Yahoo! Go! on! the! Nokia! N73!
There’s a big fat Yahoo Go button on my new Nokia N73. Remember Nokia and Yahoo did a deal a while ago to pre-load Yahoo Go on their handsets? Well this is the first one of those I’ve got.
I took a look around. It’s still very much similar to what I recall on the N90. I really don’t like the way they handle news. When you run the Yahoo Go application, there’s a wickedly nice news icon there in the menu. Click it and you get a list of headline options — ‘Entertainment’ for example. Click on Entertainment ……….. and what happens? Well, it loads the phone’s web browser and then the Yahoo News entertainment headlines.
How disappointing. I was expecting it to RSS the news down to the Yahoo Go application. It’s a total cop out to send people to their mobile web browser when they’ve specifically clicked to open the Yahoo Go service.
Anyway I’m umming and ahhing about hooking it all up with my Yahoo username so that it’ll do the integrated thing with the address book, calendar and whatnot.
Wotcha reckon? I’ll give it a go. Better back everything up here on the Apple though.
(As for this post headline: I had to copy The Register’s habit of sticking an exclamation point after every word in the title for anything to! do! with! Yahoo!)
Erm, where’s the Yahoo button? (I don’t see it in your photo…)
Posted by Carlo Longino on October 24th, 2006 at 9:15 pm.Carlo, sorry, I meant a virtual button.
It’s slap bang in the centre of the default menu on the main Nokia screen.
The options on the main screen are:
Address Book, New Message, Yahoo Go, Music Player, Internet & Movies/Images
Pretty good real estate positioning!
Posted by ewan on October 24th, 2006 at 9:18 pm.Hey dude,
I’ve used Yahoo Go for ages - but only for my mail. The way it synchronises my Yahoo contacts/calendar/mailboxes is brilliant and its an application that I probably couldnt live without!
I only really recommend it though to those people that have Yahoo email accounts otherwise I can’t really see the point in it.
The sync function is good -
I sync my phone’s contacts/appointments etc with outlook.. Yahoo Go then syncs that with your Yahoo Calender/Address book.
The only thing I keep turned off is the photo upload thingy - the data charges would be far too much!
Posted by James Whatley on October 25th, 2006 at 12:23 pm.It worked flawlessly this time James!
Posted by ewan on October 26th, 2006 at 12:17 am.Hey dude, i got my N73 a few days back. but i dont have Yahoo Go preinstalled. Is it installed in the memory card???because i hav changed it to 512mb. if itsn’t then can u plz tell me wer can i get it????thanx. Do mail me.
Posted by sandeep on November 6th, 2006 at 3:16 pm.Sandeep — I wouldn’t worry if it’s not preinstalled on your device — you can easily get it from Yahoo!
Posted by ewan on November 6th, 2006 at 3:18 pm.From where do I get the daam Yahoo! Go.
Posted by Salman on November 13th, 2006 at 5:20 pm.i want yahoo go on my nokia n73
Posted by nitin rajani on December 8th, 2006 at 8:08 am.Hey dudes - just seen your woes on hunting down Yahoo Go!
I too suffered these woes.
I don’t think Yahoo have it on their site due to their agreement with 3.
BUT - it is available by going here:
http://www.dotsis.com/mobile_phone/showthread.php?t=25673>othread
(it’s where I got it from)
Posted by James on December 8th, 2006 at 1:15 pm.yahoo go is very funny & usefull, I had it in my N-73 but i had to format my N-73 due to other reason after formating it I could not use yahoo go please give me solution.
Posted by manoj kumar on May 15th, 2007 at 2:00 am.WARNING GUYS AND GALS - Yahoo Go! 2.0 doesn’t support the marvellous integrated mail as far as i can tell. The other features are probably better, but I found it invaluable receiving my emails in my handsets inbox. Has anyone got the old software so i can fix my phone?
Posted by Josh Steed on September 4th, 2007 at 9:59 am.Yahoo Go 2.0 doesn’t sync up with the Calendar in the N73 anymore. Absolute rubbish - that was the best thing about it - 2 way syncing….
Posted by Boycey on September 16th, 2007 at 3:59 am.hello sir, i m planning to bye a new N73 ME. i want the Yahoo Go preinstalled on my phone. how can i know from its pack whether it has Yahoo Go preinstalled or not ?
Posted by Nir on September 17th, 2007 at 7:31 am.Guys:
Yahoo Go 2.0 sucks.
Click on the link that I posted previously to get the old (native Symbian) variant of Yahoo 1.0.
J.
Posted by James Whatley on September 17th, 2007 at 9:06 am.i just want to know how can i know fromN73 pack whether it has Yahoo Go preinstalled or not ?
Posted by Nir on September 19th, 2007 at 9:48 am.