Photo and video sharing with Yahoo! Messenger for the iPhone
December 8, 2009 on 2:02 pm | In Features, iphone | 6 Comments
With the latest version of Yahoo! Messenger for iPhone (v1.3), it’s now possible to not only share photos, but also videos that you take on your iPhone 3GS.
While you’re in a conversation, tap on the emoticon icon to bring up the message options. Tap on the Media tab where you can choose to take a new photo or video clip, or choose an existing one from your photo gallery.
Your friend will receive a notification that you’re sharing a file with them, and after the file finishes transferring, you’ll see a confirmation on your phone. At anytime while the file is sending, you can tap on the speech bubble to view it.
Friends can also IM you videos (.mov, .mp4), and photos when you’re on your iPhone. When a new file is coming in, you’ll see a message asking if you want to accept or decline the incoming file transfer. Accept it, wait for the download and then just tap the speech bubble to view the image right in the app.
A handy thing about this new feature is that it allows you to send and receive files up to 15MB in size. So when you video your baby’s first steps on your phone, you can instantly send it off to friends and family on IM. And best of all, it won’t count against your data plan the way MMS messages do.
Sarah Bacon
Product Manager
It’s a real shame that as much (or almost any) attention as is going into Yahoo for iPhone isn’t going into updating Yahoo Messenger for Mac. File transfers repeated error with Window Yahoo Messenger Users, even when using the latest Mac Beta (which appears to be the only version which connect properly now). Way to make us feel like THIRD CLASS citizens (after Yahoo Messenger for Windows, and Yahoo Messneger for iPhone). I guess we know which market you guys value. Should I point out that Mac users are more likely to be the ones with the disposible income to BUY iPhones?
Comment by JeffCGD — December 8, 2009 #
Thanks for that update .. it really adds some good functionality options … but there are still a lot of simple features missing …
1- Specially Stealth settings ( to Appear offline to someone while appearing online to someone else ) ..
2- The ability to chat with MSN users …
3- The ability to use fonts and colors while chatting
4-The ability to join Chat Rooms ..
I hope an update would fix these issues soon …
Comment by Luay — December 9, 2009 #
hm what does this mean for Facebook users if the functionality it beafed up? I say goodbye Facebook. Carl Parisien Natick
Comment by carl parisien — December 11, 2009 #
Wow! That’s kewl! Does anybody want to chat with me right now? I’m bored and their is nothing else to do.
Comment by Presley — December 13, 2009 #
“1- Specially Stealth settings ( to Appear offline to someone while appearing online to someone else ) ..
2- The ability to chat with MSN users …”
Agreed on these two a million miles out of a million. Please make these the two biggest priorities for iPhone development. Please please please.
Comment by mesmerone — December 18, 2009 #
hiiii
Comment by hossam — April 19, 2010 #