yes its free and very good.

Glad to see Yahoo is taking intrest. Ive been a yahoo use for more than 10yrs now. Love it. It has only goten better.

now if only you had a jivetalk esk type messanger download, then you would really be in buisness..

also making yahoo maps compatible with the blackberry as it is online, at least view arials and such, would be wonderfull.

you all keep up the good work (down with google)

The map widget has both satellite and hybrid views.

Any way of changing font sizes? My > 40 eyes are having a real hard time

When is the 8830 version going to be released?...I cant stand the slow gps updating on google its riciculous and I need more detail that bb maps has.

Yup!

Yes Yahoo, when will this be released on the 8830. Tell me, and tell me now.

Please release the 8830 version of yahoo go! I miss my stock quotes! You should be able to use the build from the 8800!

speaking of... how do I view "My Portfolio"

i love yahoogo!!!! it is much beetter then yahoo search.... as for the messenger I am using YAk-ON as a messenger i noticed that JiveTalk is a battery drainer.... I am saying this with experience i used it for 3weeks and noticed a change.. I then decided to uninstall it and use yak-on big difference n battery

I like it also. I tend to use gmail more, but I may start to switch over becuase of this new app. However, I am getting an error message when I scroll over to flickr and want to see my photos. I would tell you the error, but now it started working...go figure.

Any updates/rumors on 8830 release date?

So far the product is working well.

My suggestion is to have the ability to install the modules you need. For example, I don't need or care for flickr or finance. This will (I hope) save memory space on the device.

Any word for the BB 8830 yet.

Is it just me or is anyone else not seeing the background updates occuring. It seems that when I go into the app (and yes, I leave it running in the background) does not update until I go to the widget or whatever they call it so not seeing it update.

let me know

rob

yeah it only updates when you go to each section. no problem for me but maybe theirs a setting for that i'm not sure.

Yup. GPS support seems to be present on my 8800 w/ Yahoo! Go. Always shows me right wwhere I am, and it is WAY faster than Google Maps. And it is not fee-for-service either like the app that Cingular/AT&T Tries to make you use. This free service was a nice surprise, as well as any number of the other well-implemented features of Yahoo! Go. I also like the way it adapts non-mobile web pages for mobile viewing. I don't think I have used the regular browser even once since I installed Yahoo! Go.

i downloaded y! go to my cingular 8800 this past weekend. i really like its gps updates. much faster than (and doesn't stall like) google local. the other widgets are kind of neat but i have no interest in them. i want my y! icon to open/launch directly into maps but i have not found a way to make that happen. i'd welcome an upgrade or setting that lets me click my handheld's y! icon and open/launch directly every time into maps

(and thanks to the yahoo! person monitoring feedback and reporting back!)

God damn it I want this app for my 8830. YAHOO RELEASE THIS!

This is a very well done App. It has all but replaced Berry411, Google Maps, and the Google Search App in one, nice package. The GPS integration is nice, but it'll take turn-by-turn directions for me to drop TeleNav. If it could do that, the only "apps" I would really need are RepliGo, Y! Go, and, of course, Brickbreaker.

I was also playing around with it and was thinking about a PBS special I saw some years ago about the ubiquitous "Web 2.0". It got my wife and I to talking, and I recall her saying, "you know, it's not going to be long before you can be walking the street in an unfamiliar city, look down at your phone, and get the name, summary, and reviews of the restaurants your standing in front of." I remember thinking that when THAT happened, "Web 2.0" (whatever that actually means) would be officially "here", in my book.

Well, Y! Go has the capability of doing that. All it needs to do is modify the oneSearch function to search businesses around the device's GPS location and wham-o -- Web 2.0. That would be a great feature. Even if you don't go that far and just permit us to select our "Current GPS Location" as a location for oneSearch, you're 1/2 way there.

Anyway, all in all, nicely done.

--Mav

I am starting to warm up to it. I like the features wrapped into one but it is a bit slow for me. If I need a quick search which also has GPS functions nothing beats Beyond411.

Linda by any chance would you be able to give us a time frame on the 8830 release date?

I'm curious, and since Linda is responding in this forum, I'll post my curiousity here. With Yahoo and Google and the other map programs being compatibly with GPS devices in the phones and displaying moving maps, I can't imagine that audible turn-by-turn directions would be that much more difficult to implement. What is it that holds these free services back from providing that functionality?

My guess would be the bandwidth and latency would be the big ones. I am really waiting for one of these GPS program providers to offer MicroSD storage for the maps and audio. This really should be the next step.

Linda's posted a total of 4 times (maybe 5) on these forums and the last time was on 7/10. Don't hold your breath waiting for an answer.

...and Google Talk (web-based IM), and I think Google Talk Gadget as well, which is the IM client... very cool!

Can't believe there's still no BT puck support for this. C'mon Yahoo!!!!!!

Yep. My feelings exactly. I like the quality of the yahoo maps. Reports are the performance with GPS is great. The local search capability seems equivalent to google maps. Give me BT GPS and I'll pitch google maps.

Just did my daily check from the bb browser and YahooGo is finally available for the 8830 (Verizon in my case). Downloaded and ran, so far so good.

Something I just discovered re: Y!Go's Maps application:

One of the three (pretty minor) complaints I've had with this app was my inability to copy and paste an address-- e.g., if someone texted or e-mailed me an address, I couldn't copy that address, load up Y!Maps, and paste it into either the location field for "Find location" or "Driving directions". Or, rather, if I pressed the menu button while in the location field, there was no "Paste" option in that menu.

Realized tonight that you *can*, however, click on the "Insert special character" option, and from *that* screen, do Menu>>Paste.

Passing this along in case anyone else has encountered the same frustration! :)

Y!Go's maps yesterday saved me some time in traffic. being able to see red spots on maps was great. made it with 1/2 hour to spare. i reccomend this app to everyone

huh, i just got the new att branded 8820 yesterday to replace my 8800. (am still struggling to get wi-fi associated with my home access point, but hopefully my firm's tech's will help me sort out this coming week.) i had google maps and yahoo! go on the old 8800 and liked google maps somewhat better (because i perceived gps tracking worked better with yahoo! go). i managed to get google maps downloaded to new 8820, but nothing i have tried allows me to get to a download page for downloading yahoo! go to the new 8820. any ideas appreciated. att wouldn't have done something to 8820 to make yahoo! go not compatible with 8820 as yahoo! go was with 8800, would att have? thx

I have a non ATT 8820 model and Yahoo GO! is not compatible with the 8820 browser. I have tried the WiFI, Blackberry and WAP browser..non of which are compatible with Yahoo GO! I expect there is a slight variation in the browser config between the 8800 and the 8820 (ala 8800 and 8830 variations) that RIM has inserted. It will simply be a matter of time before Yahoo gets the 8820 supported. In this case, I do not think ATT is the 'culprit'.

I tried to download it on 8800 ATT, but the mesage comes that "your phone currently doesn't support Yahoo! Go 2.0". any suggestions?

just talked to ATT, they say that in order to activate he GPS device I need to subscribe to Telenav. Is this true? I cannot use any GPS features that came with this expensive phone without paying more to ATT?

thank you

Radu

Question #1: That is really weird.. the 8800 version came out before my 8830 version a while ago (correct 8800 users?)..

Question #2: You should post this in the GPS sub-forum since this does not seem to be linked to YahooGo..

Thank you, Triforce66. I figured the problem with Yahoo Go. I was using OperaMini to download it, didnt work. Once I used BBbrowser it went throught.