Yahoo Mail adds text messaging support

[ssassy01d]

Yahoo Mail adds text messaging support

Posted Aug 27th 2007 12:34PM by Chris Ziegler (http://www.engadgetmobile.com/bloggers/chris-ziegler)
Filed under: Messaging (http://www.engadgetmobile.com/category/messaging/)
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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 (http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/07/19/t-mobile-myfaves-subs-get-unlimited-sms-for-10/) starting (http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/23/atandt-makes-unlimited-sms-plans-official/) to (http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/04/cricket-rolls-out-unlimited-messaging-on-all-plans/) push (http://www.engadgetmobile.com/2007/04/16/verizon-rolls-out-unlimited-messaging/), we reckon.

Source : Engadget Mobile

[tmobilefan]

Thanks for posting!

[Nokiaman42]

they haven`t updated mine yethttp://www.chins-n-quills.com/forums/images/smilies/cry2.gif

[Nwahs]

Yeah mine either...odd
Maybe they are just testing it right now...I got the new Yahoo homepage before a lot of other people did...so maybe they are just testing it randomly to see reactions.

[kinjutsu11]

They also integrated Windows Live messenger as well so its all unified in one interface, pretty sweet!

[Nokiaman42]

ya same here

[ssassy01d]

I didnt find it on mine either, found the beta version, but didnt see anything where I could send a text, I spyed the new chat feature though. Maybe its on its way.

[Nokiaman42]

this is unfairhttp://img90.exs.cx/img90/2365/k1ocray.gif

[tmobilefan]

They didn't update mine either. I didn't look until now.

[PortPowerKS]

Don't have it on mine neither..

[Railroader]

It's not on mine.

[Nokiaman42]

just checked mine again still the samehttp://smilies.sofrayt.com/fsc/sobbing.gif

[ssassy01d]

I bet there's an update coming pretty soon, keep checking

[Matt]

Left me out too. :(

[christyxcore]

My old yahoo mail doesnt have this either, and I just created a new one (with my current online alias) and no go

:(

I'll just keep checking

[kinjutsu11]

I can't see it at all since i don't think its supported on Safari, since i have a Mac. I might just have to open up Parallels and use Internet Explorer.... i hate IE. I guess i'll try it on FireFox first though (crossing fingers)

[kinjutsu11]

This is what i saw when i clicked the Yahoo Mail RSS Feed

http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/10/15/289983/YMail.jpg

So, within a week eh? I guess we'll see.....

[ssassy01d]

I just checked mine its still on beta, and I've yet to figure out how to send a text from it haha!