Yahoo! Go
Recently, I downloaded Yahoo! Go after seeing it on a friend’s Pearl. It is really, really sexy.
Here’s what I like.
- Flickr integration: I can see my contacts and their latest photos.
- Weather: The ability to set multiple locations is really cool. The interface is beautiful and the content is fast.
- Local & Maps: The “Find Nearby”, “Driving Directions”, and “Traffic Watch” are fun to play with and the Traffic Watch is surprisingly useful, especially here in the Silicon Valley. I can plot and save routes. I can also get timely information about conditions on area roads and freeways. Talk about a timesaver.
- Yahoo! oneSearch: Integrating the Calendar and Address Book with Search is nifty.
- Overall look and feel: The user interface in Yahoo! Go is beautiful, probably one of the most adorably cute user interfaces I’ve seen on the Blackberry Pearl. It just makes you want to use it.
What I think could be improved.
- Enable SureType: I’m used to using SureType on my Blackberry Pearl. Every application I use allows this kind of input. Yahoo! Go doesn’t. Let me type the way I’m used to typing.
- News, Sports, Finance, Entertainment: I should be able to switch these icons around and add RSS feeds that I like to these subheaders, even if I swap out the Sports icon for “Web” and Finance for “Music”. At the end of the day, these things are just feeds anyway. With a limit of two items by default and an ability to add “Watchlists” (not so useful for news), there doesn’t seem an easy way to customize the categories, add fields of interest, and delete the stuff I could care less about.
- Calendar integration with Upcoming: This would kick more ass than Jackie Chan. Having a list of events my friends are going to available on the fly would be great.
Overall, I really dig Yahoo! Go. It’s a nice piece of work.
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