Hi-end Nokia phones to come with Yahoo applications
By Dusan Belic on Friday, June 30th, 2006 at 3:52 AM PST In Applications, Mobile Web, NSeries, Nokia, Partnerships, Symbian
We’ve already seen this in Australia. Now the same thing comes to the Asian market, as all the multimedia phones and smartphones from Nokia (NYSE: NOK) will now be pre-loaded with popular Yahoo applications. This will enable consumers to have access to a range of popular services including messenger, e-mail, search, connections, photos, ringtones and games.
Yahoo’s mobile application “Yahoo Go” would be free for buyers of Nokia Nseries and S60 smartphones and customers would only have to pay for accessing the web on their handsets.
The existing N70, Nokia 6680, Nokia 6681 and Nokia 6630 owners will be able to download the Yahoo! Go application on their existing handsets.
Unfortunately, the selection of smartphones that these applications will install is very limited at the moment. My E61 lacks such a client as do a lot of other ‘high-end’ smartphones.