iPhone App: Yahoo! OneConnect for iPhone
We cover iPhone apps here from time to time and the new app coming from Yahoo!, One Connect, has piqued our interest.
There are many IM communication apps out there but Yahoo!’s Instant Messenger’s ability to send messages via text rather than as an instant message has always been helpful. As a result, the user on the other end always gets the text even when they’re not online. AOL’s AIM instant messenger client does not do provide the same feature, for example.
But, Yahoo! OneConnect from Yahoo! Mobile is much more than just an IM app. It achieves which many companies such as Google and Facebook are trying to build not just for the Apple iPhone.
Users have many profiles and instant messaging accounts in their social network world, and they ideally need to be able to integrate with all of them through one client.
According to the Yahoo! Mobile team interviewed by Jennifer Dolcourt at CNET, OneConnect will allow you to: update photos and contacts on and through your iPhone, send status messages at your favorite social networks and send free IMs and text messages.
In addition to iPhone users, iPod Touch users will find this last feature very useful in that they don’t have a phone on their device, of course.
As of today, though, we still haven’t seen OneConnect available in the iTunes App Store.
September 12, 2008 – 10:12 am