Windows Phone Thoughts: Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 Greets Windows Mobile; HTC Announced as a Major Partner

"Continuing to redefine the mobile Internet experience for millions of consumers around the world, Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO) today announced the availability of gamma version of Yahoo! Go for Mobile 2.0 on Windows Mobile powered devices. Expanding this innovative service to the popular Windows Mobile platform will enable consumers to use it on 75 Windows Mobile devices from major manufacturers. In total the service will be supported by more than 175 different mobile phone models, including more than 100 models available today. Consumers should check for the latest device availability at http://go.yahoo.com. "Consumers have been clamoring for us to bring Yahoo! Go 2.0 to Windows Mobile devices since we launched the service less than two months ago," said Marco Boerries, senior vice president of connected life, Yahoo!. "There are millions of mobile phones on the Windows Mobile platform in the market today and consumers with these devices want to use the most advanced, exciting services available. Our innovative Yahoo! Go 2.0 service finally brings the open Internet to the mobile phone and gives consumers the compelling experience they have been looking for."



You wanted Yahoo! Go for Mobile on Windows Mobile and here it is (available for Smartphones now, and for Pocket PCs in April). The service offers centralized access to Yahoo!-powered search, maps, news, weather, finance, photo sharing (via Flickr), and e-mail, and it's set to be preloaded on a good number of HTC devices indefinitely. Alongside Microsoft's Windows Live offering and bits and pieces from Google, there'll certainly be no shortage of mobile services for Windows Mobile. All good, though - more choice, more competition, more innovation.