oneConnect: Yahoo! Messenger for the iPhone (and a whole lot more)
September 10, 2008 on 11:19 am | In Mobile |
Today, Yahoo! OneConnect launched for the Apple iPhone. Built by the mobile team at Yahoo!, oneConnect is designed to help you communicate with not only your Yahoo! Messenger friends, but also the friends you have on social networks like Facebook, Flickr, MySpace, Youtube, Bebo, Dopplr, Friendster and Twitter.
Here’s a quick rundown of oneConnect’s top features:
Full address book
oneConnect integrates contacts from your Yahoo! Address Book, iPhone, and many social networks. To add social networks to your oneConnect, tap on the “Settings” icon at the bottom, then hit “My Accounts”. Once you’ve added a social network account, oneConnect will import all your contacts. Tap on the “Contacts” icon in the bottom bar to access them.
Send and receive instant messages, SMS
Once you sign in with your Yahoo! ID, your entire Yahoo! Messenger contact list will appear. Just tap on the “Message” icon in the bottom bar, then tap the “+” in the upper right corner to start a new IM (or start one from a friend’s listing under “Contacts”). You can insert your favorite emoticons into your conversation and you’ll see your Avatar or display image as well as your friend’s.
When you’re messaging, you’ll notice a “Y!” icon to the left of the text box. Tap on that and it changes to an SMS icon. When you want to send a SMS message, make sure the SMS icon appears there and just start typing. Note that you must have the mobile phone number for your friend already entered into their contact info. To go back to sending IMs, tap on the icon again to bring up the Y! icon.
Updates from your friends (Pulse)
In addition to IMs and SMS text messages, you can keep up with what your friends are doing on your favorite social networks. Tap on the Pulse icon to see a running list of updates from your friends. See the latest photos from your Flickr friends, get status updates from your Facebook contacts, or see what your Twitter buddies have to say. Different views let you look at all updates together, just status updates or just photo updates.
You can also update your own status on your social networks from oneConnect. When you’re in the Pulse area, tap the “My Status” button in the upper right corner. Enter a new status message and it gets sent out too all of your networks at once.
Yahoo! oneConnect is available for free from the Yahoo! Mobile website. To install it, click the “Get Yahoo! oneConnect” button on the page to access the oneConnect listing in the App Store on iTunes (or click here to launch it immediately in iTunes). It works on all versions of the iPhone.
Try it out and let us know what you think here on the blog or on the oneConnect Suggestion Board.
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
Who is this “Adrien” person? We only see half his face, but looks so handsome!
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Looking good so far, but I was disappointed to see that when I updated my Twitter status, it didn’t say “from oneConnect.” http://twitter.com/jeffhester/statuses/917283923
Comment by Jeff Hester — September 10, 2008 #
Finally
2 of my favourite brands come together
Comment by Anita — September 11, 2008 #
Initial feedback:
A trifle disappointed on the icon on the home screen..
not Yahoo! at all.
Since you’ve integrated other social networking products in pulse, why not include gtalk, aol , msn (for those who havent used the interoperability feature)
I use IMplus on the iphone and the best part of that is that I have just one app for all my IM conversations..
Any options for multiple Y! mail account users.. as in can i sync in contacts of my other yahoo mail account?
Comment by Anita — September 11, 2008 #
Great idea! Let’s open our iPhones to the significant SPAM transmitted over the Yahoo! network.
Comment by Annoyed — September 11, 2008 #
i wish yahoo messenger for mac sported the same chat balloon styles as they do in Yahoo! oneConnect. Mac users will love it!
Comment by chet — September 11, 2008 #
[...] MySpace, YouTube, Bebo, Dopplr, Friendster si Twitter). Pentru a adauga o noua retea sociala in OneConnect, mergeti la tabul “Settings” –> “My Aaccounts”. Dupa adaugarea noii retele, lista de [...]
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I wish you guys would get rid of the gloss in the icon, it’s downright tool-y and annoying. That’s my minor complaint about an otherwise great iPhone app. Remove the gloss in the next version, please?
Comment by Jeff — September 13, 2008 #
Lame. Yahoo OneConnect isn’t available in the Canadian store.
Comment by Canadian — September 14, 2008 #
I cannot add myspace account to oneconnect, keeps telling me wrong password or email. i am able to log on to my space with my other app on my iphone fine. Any suggestions?
Comment by Willthetech — September 15, 2008 #
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Why is this not available in india???
So not fair, always the last people get stuff
Comment by Monty — September 17, 2008 #
Hi guys!
It’s great you took the time and designed such a versatile app.
But I have to admit all I wanted was a very beautiful, yet simple and fast Y! Messenger for the iPhone that would later support push. This whole oneConnect thing basically dilutes the Y! functionality and brand and shows a lack of focus in your strategy.
Kudos for trying to serve all those services in one, but I do Twitter via Twitterrific, Facebook via Facebook.app and I expect Y! IM to be just that too. Keeping everything in its own basked makes great user experience and good business.
i’ll pay $2.99 for Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone, even if you guys will release it free. alas, will uninstall oneConnect though.
keep it up,
Dan
user experience consultant
http://helipadhouse.com
Comment by Dan — September 17, 2008 #
Um. Not available in the Canadian Store?!?!
WTF Guys, better change this ASAP.
Honestly, is this a joke?
Comment by Anon — September 17, 2008 #
@Anon & @Canadian -
Over on the Suggestions Board for oneConnect, they say Canadian support is coming soon:
http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=oneconnect&fid=110439
@WilltheTech -
MySpace issue has been worked on according to Suggestions board. Give it another try
http://suggestions.yahoo.com/detail/?prop=oneconnect&fid=110173
Comment by Administrator — September 18, 2008 #
Great!!! my space is working now!!!! amazing app!!! thanks!!!
Comment by Willthetech — September 19, 2008 #
are the contacts not working for anyone else? each time i try it says theres an error. ive tried facebook and myspace
Comment by ben — September 21, 2008 #
When this will be availabe for India : ) .. ?
Comment by Yahoo lover — September 22, 2008 #
and in France, also? Actually, everywhere in the world ? we’re waiting for this app !!!!! Why only for US people ?
Comment by bep — September 24, 2008 #
Why not available in the UK? It’s called “one”Connect and not “us”Connect.
Comment by Antoine — September 26, 2008 #
is this available for the iPod Touch?
Comment by hehe — October 11, 2008 #
OneConnect is not on the Singapore iTunes App Store. Any other place to get it from? Or waiting for beta to finish? If so, when will real release be?
Comment by Barney — October 28, 2008 #
I am an avid MAC user and prefer just regular yahoo messenger for the iPhone. I use yahoo messenger more than I do any other app. I dont like having to use a second or third party to use it, but hey I gotta do what I gotta do. Please develop a yahoo messenger app exclusively for the iPhone. Thanks guys.
Comment by Brandon Mosley — November 6, 2008 #
Can’t send messages. I don’t appear to be only to my yahoo buddies.
Comment by tama — November 11, 2008 #
Signs out whenever you get a message or call. If they can fix this bug it should be be great
Comment by idealist — January 9, 2009 #
when it will be available in the uk?
Comment by robert — February 5, 2009 #
Um………….if you could stay logged in like yahoo messenger works on other phones it would be great. Now, it’s kind of pointless unless you are just going to stay in the one app and not do anything else with your iphone! I am so disappointed!!!!!!!!!! Why not just make a simple Y! Messenger? Just simple…………..sometimes less is more
Comment by Shae — February 5, 2009 #
I have had my iPhone for a week now. I like most of it but the Yahoo IM, the lack of being able to add my music I have as a ring tone, no MMS what the hell, and the small touch keys for the messenger keyboard is making me want my Blackberry back. I’m really thinking about going back to Blackberry. I wish it worked the way it should. I’m surprised at the lack of functionality and how hard it is to type on the iPhone compared to the Blackberry… sad very sad.
Comment by MikeK — March 16, 2009 #
U can get it in any country jus sign up 4 a us iTunes account an install it I’m in Canada and I have it…
Comment by Blackprincess — March 24, 2009 #