Yup, it's out. A whole new version of the free Yahoo! Go! on-device portal. Version 2 was actually pretty handy, including mapping and routing and support for built-in GPS. Version 3.0 claims better email handling, more news, satellite maps, live traffic. Sounds a bit like Google's portfolio, except that here it's all in the one Java application. Worth a try? Type get.go.yahoo.com into your smartphone's browser.
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Hmmm... maybe teething troubles, but my N95 is coming up as 'not supported'. Anyone else try a different device?
Just installed it on my N95-1 and it is working. Cant say I'm particularly impressed though..... Feels just as clumsy and sluggish as V2....🙄
Come on yahoo, give us a native yahoo go app! Pretty please! 😉
My N95-1 showed up as unsupported yesterday and as supported today, crazy yahoo...
Still, java and sluggish, no good for me.
My N80 is still coming up as unsupported - does anyone have the actual installation files for any n-series?
i'm not expecting much, after the 2.0 experience.
naah... version 3.0 sucks just as much as version 2.0. :icon13:
Guess if they had to keep it as a java program, then they shouldnt have put in such animations..
It's using over 5mb of ram as well......! Early F/W N95's will be struggling with this one 🙄
If you've got a phone with a 240x320 screen resolution but your model isn't supported, you can download the N95 version but following these simple steps:
- use a web browser that allows you to override the user agent (Firefox + the User Agent Switcher extension will do that just fine).
- Configure your browser to use the following user agent (this is the N95's one):
Mozilla/5.0 (SymbianOS/9.2; U; Series60/3.1 NokiaN95/11.0.026; Profile MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1) AppleWebKit/413 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/413
- Navigate to get.go.yahoo.com
- Yahoo will think that you are navigating from an N95 and will let you download Yahoo Go 3 beta (it's a .jad file).
- Send the .jad file via bluetooth to your phone. Open the bluetooth message. Install Yahoo Go.
Or alternatively, if you can't be bothered to go through all this hassle, just download the .zip file below, unzip it and bluetooth the .jad to your phone (this is the N95 version, will only work on phones with a 240x320 resolution - sorry had to zip it as the forum engine would not allow me to attach a .jad file directly).
Those with other screen resolution will have to find a phone model supported by Yahoo Go with the same resolution, find their user agent using Google and follow the steps above to download the application.
The N95 version works fine on an E90 (albeit only on the external screen).
Not really worth much in my opinion though. Typical Java application. Takes ages to start, really sluggish, unnecessarily cluttered UI and doesn't really offer anything new. Doesn't come close to Google Mail or Opera Mini 4, which in my opinion are the only 2 Java applications worth trying.
Hi all,
I really don't get what is going on @Yahoo the original version 1.50 that wasn't a Java app and as first found by me on my N73 was a really great app that i thought was brilliant. I was really miffed that when i upgraded to a N93 i could no longer use it, then came Yahoo 2.0 and i got excited at the prospect of having this great app back again that lasted all of 5 minutes after installation as it was just rubbish in comparison and now version 3.0 is with us with just more of the same. I really don't get why Yahoo can't give us back the brilliant original non Java app that just worked so well and that would make so many of us happy again.
Marc
Yeah, its a bit of a chore to get installed. I have an ATTized N75, and it wouldn't install from any browser directly, and crashed from the ATT/Nokia browser the first time. Eventually loaded, and did the usual trick of having to crash the first time it ran, then it ran okay.
No, it didn't! Then... it decided I didn't have a network connection. I was not missing a connection request, just had to let it try and fail five times before it believed me. Weird. This may be a beta.
I am generally unimpressed as yet. Still takes a lot of clicks to get to actual information, obscure icons abound, and I can't see anyone who doesn't blog about this stuff day-of-launch understanding the UI well. If anything, I like it less than the previous one. But, more widgets are better; time will, to a certain degree, tell.
Micro review (basically as above) in with related stuff:
http://www.littlespringsdesign.com/blog/2008/01/08/yahoo-and-google-mobile-now-slightly-more-mobile/
Unsupported by P990i as well.
Didn't much care for the terms & conditions that state you have to accept to receive texts from yahoo. Giving out email addresses is one thing but unwanted texts is too much.
Also hate that roating carousel of icons UI in the above screen shot. Look at all that screen space & you can see just 5 icons at a time.
:-/
UNsuported on SE P910i and unsuported on Nokia 6288 as-well
can anyone give me link to download yahoo go.3
pleas help me.
I loved 2.0 so much that I was thrilled to see they came out with an upgrade in 3.0...
What a disappointment that was. I've got a windows mobile unit and just uninstalled that 3.0 crap, put 2.0 back on.
happy again 8-)