Yahoo! Mobile App for Smartphones – beta

[Mobile World Congress] Today Yahoo launched its new Yahoo! Mobile service for the mobile web and as an application for the iPhone, for smartphones from Nokia,RIM, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Motorola and for other Windows Mobile devices. The service is available today in beta and general availibility is expected in Q2 2009.

Features include:

• Integrated Opera Mini 4.2
• Search via Yahoo! oneSearch with voice command: it allows users to launch searches simply by speaking the keywords.
• Maps: improved location tools
• Access to email accounts including Gmail, Windows Live, Hotmail and AOL Mail.
• Access to social network accounts including Bebo, Dopplr, Facebook, Flickr, Friendster, Last.fm, MySpace, Twitter and YouTube
• Access to Yahoo! Messenger, Yahoo! Address Book and Yahoo! Calendar
• Easy access to favorite content: websites, sport, news, RSS feed, weather, stocks and more with Yahoo! onePlace tool
• Widgets for various web services