More Goodness for Messenger Users on Android
April 22, 2011 on 8:37 am | In Features, Mobile, Uncategorized | 43 Comments
Since the first release of Yahoo! Messenger App for Android, we have been working hard to improve performance and have released a series of new features, intended to offer you the best in class IM experience on your Android mobile phone.
For those who aren’t already aware, here are some exciting features we would like to call out.
FREE VOICE & VIDEO CALLING: Why limit yourself to just IMs? Yahoo! Messenger for Android now supports FREE voice and video calling, so you can feel like you are right there as you connect with your friends and family, wherever they may be in the world. To activate this functionality, be sure to install the Yahoo! Messenger Voice & Video Add-on in addition to the Yahoo! Messenger App for Android.
FACEBOOK CHAT INTEGRATION: We understand your friends and family are everywhere and connecting with them should be simple and easy. With that in mind, we worked on integrating Facebook Chat within Messenger so that you can send and receive messages from your Facebook friends in real-time while you are on the go.
STAY SIGNED IN: Stay signed in to your chats on your desktop PC computer and Android mobile phone at the same time. You get notified about new messages where you are active which means you never have to miss a conversation.
We hope you will enjoy these new features as much as we do. Try them out and let us know what you think!
Yahoo! Messenger Team
I updated, it’s awesome.
Comment by matt — April 22, 2011 #
Updated but am not seeing my facebook people that are available on chat
Comment by mobe — April 22, 2011 #
I just associate with facebook my yahoo account on my phone android and get the answer : chat-ui Acum poti ca vita cu infected poponauta prieteniii Cacan if facebook pe pe yahoo messenger! is in Romanian and is a big insult for the user … someone hacked your app … fb conecting are we safe with you?
Comment by ioan — April 23, 2011 #
Acum poti chat-ui ca vita infecta cacanara si poponauta cu prieteniii de pe facebook pe yahoo messenger!
Comment by ioan — April 23, 2011 #
I am having the same problem as “mobe” noted…cannot get my contact list up on my screen for messenger! What am I doing wrong? HELP!!! Thanks
Comment by Gail — April 23, 2011 #
How about a move to SD option? I’d likely consider this app more seriously if there was one.
Comment by kckman — April 23, 2011 #
Just back from reading android market comments… I am not inspired to take the leap. Shouldn’t you also indicate that this is a BETA as well?
Comment by kckman — April 23, 2011 #
I still like my iPhone
Comment by Mike G — April 25, 2011 #
I know this isn’t the place to suggest anything but I tried every link and can’t find a way to directly send feedback or suggestions. You should make that easier to do.
Yahoo! Messenger for Vista was a beautiful application and I think that considering the Windows 7 is a lot better and uses the same technology. It would be nice to see Yahoo! Messenger for Vista become Yahoo! Messenger 12. I think that you could implement a wayyy better look and theming experience on Yahoo! Messenger and update it to where people won’t get tired of using it. I’ll be honest. I’m not fond of using Yahoo! Messenger much anymore because the look isn’t up-to-date and the speed hasn’t been as good as it could be.
Comment by Branden Mikal — April 25, 2011 #
Hello,
I can’t use Yahoo Messenger on my Android devices anymore and that happened since yesterday. Also, I can no longer locate the Yahoo Messenger app on Android market. I even tried to download it from the Yahoo! homepage without success. Also, I get this weird message when I try to download the app via Yahoo! homepage – “This item is not available on your carrier”. What’s that supposed to mean? I never had this issue before. What’s going on?
My devices:
Xperia Arc – Android Gingerbread 2.3
Xperia X10 – Android Eclair 2.1
Thank you.
Comment by Robert S — April 26, 2011 #
Seriously? An update to the Android version?
How about updating the desktop app too. Yahoo! Messenger for Mac is still in Beta since June 28, 2006, latest version is 3.0.1 Beta (build 235554) from March 26, 2010. Also the Windows version is still in Beta (11.0.0.1751 Beta – November 16, 2010). Yahoo! Mail also Beta. I don’t know how this could happen, but I’m tired of waiting. Also the Desktop app seems very outdated to me, the same look, just minor changes like that stupid Facebook chat integration, message archives on the Yahoo!’s servers instead of my PC, not even giving an option to the user to choose how he would want to store his archives. I think killing Yahoo! Messenger for Vista was really a bad idea. It was elegant and clean and it was well integrated with Windows Vista. I think you guys should resurrect the project again instead of borrowing the design of it to the smartphone apps and mail.
Comment by littlejoe — April 27, 2011 #
I don’t get notifications of new messages on my android phone.
Comment by Philleum01 — April 27, 2011 #
A small problem the Y!M app disables the phones ability to sleep when it’s running so as a result the battery dies very quickly, about 8 hours on my phone which sucks since I’m used to going 3+ days before needing to charge. So it would be nice to have a nice easy button or something to shut down Y!M instead of having to go into the settings to do it (going in the settings to shut down on app does that make any sense to anyone). Also while Y!M is running there should be a visible indicator in the notifications bar.
Nice to see though that when it’s in the background it does not use up much bandwidth about 4mb in the 8 hours on my phone while Y!M was in the background idle.
Another thought is with the android phones being able to do so much already, texting, sending pics videos etc. and not to mention some pretty awesome apps to handle voip, go sms pro awesome etc. I just can’t imagine Y!M for android (or any other chat program for that matter) being all that useful or really wanted on the android.
What made Y!M for pc in the past great was the chat rooms, for actually just chatting with individual friends it failed, far better alternatives were always available but the chat rooms. Unfortunately throw in years of booters and tons of spam bots and what is either an inability or unwillingness to do anything about those two programs has left Y!M chat rooms undesirable. Now if you folks could fix this problem, forums have and it’s fairly easy and offer chat room access on android now that would be interesting.
For now I’m uninstalling Y!M for android, it doesn’t offer anything new, actually with go sms pro, friend stream and the facebook app (even facebook own built in texting) Y!M for android offers a whole lot less, add the battery drain.
Comment by Andre — April 28, 2011 #
Starting today, I can not log into YIM, simply says “sign in failed”. Never had that happen before.
Comment by atlbm — April 28, 2011 #
Thank you. I have been enjoying all of these facilities. You have made communication so easy. Please keep it up.
Comment by Abel — April 29, 2011 #
hey yahoo
how about a new beta for Yahoo! Messenger 11
Comment by David — April 29, 2011 #
Nope… stuck at the loading contacts screen… And this is since 1.3.2. I hope you guys will eventually fix this. Over 3G’s buggy as hell.
Comment by Geo ^^ — May 2, 2011 #
wow so cool!!!1
Comment by jay-anne sacil — May 2, 2011 #
good
Comment by suleiman enogela — May 3, 2011 #
the services are nice and provides great opportunities for friends easy communications.
Comment by suleiman enogela — May 3, 2011 #
I used to use y!messenger for my main chat app many many years ago.
I have stopped using it and am using google chat instead partly because of SPAM. I do not get unsolicited attempts to make contact by spam-bots using the google service. I used to use messenger on my blackberry and it was an annoying process to block unwanted contacts. I only open it up in my yahoo mail now but since most of my friends have migrated away the only contacts I get are spam-bots. The whole feel of Y!Messenger is now shaky in association.
Comment by d. — May 3, 2011 #
guis kindly find me foreigner chatmates pls
Comment by kath — May 5, 2011 #
video call on android nice…
Comment by auliya ikhsan — May 15, 2011 #
At least SOMEOME is making an IM client for Android, Props. Like this.
Comment by Cliff — May 24, 2011 #
I just got the new aneroid and not sure how to hook this messaged up but playing alround with it is awesome…well any feed back on how &what to do would be swooped thanks fans…
Comment by joeytatz — June 1, 2011 #
Please please please oh pretty please for the love of God! The video chat should be using the FRONT facing camera not the back!
Comment by Joshua — June 8, 2011 #
is this thing is valid?
i can’t even find it on android market
Comment by phoenixstudio — June 9, 2011 #
I like Android
Comment by Buy MBT — June 13, 2011 #
since HTC gingerbread update the Video conference is defaulted to rear camera. There is no option to select the front camera. I have sent feedback in and patiently awaiting a fix for this.
Comment by Ken — June 17, 2011 #
i like your website!!
Comment by kenneth john — June 18, 2011 #
WHAT ABOUT THE MOTOROLA ANDROID I1. HOW DO U GET IT ON THERE
Comment by alex — June 20, 2011 #
Video still does not use the front camera only the rear one. Possible to fix this? This bug has been there since 2.2 or older.
Samsung Galaxy S Gingerbread 2.3.3
Comment by John — June 23, 2011 #
There is a message that I like yahoo.
Comment by Buy MBT — June 25, 2011 #
Front camera wont work on my HTC Sensation when using messenger
Comment by Steve V — June 26, 2011 #
Curious blog post you have here. I hadn’t pondered aforementioned.
Comment by Amiee Gargus — June 30, 2011 #
中国人民全力顶起！~
Comment by liubo — July 7, 2011 #
Yahoo! Messenger is still amazing IM for business phones.
Version 11 promises better social integration.
Comment by CellChaos — July 8, 2011 #
Loved the Messenger app on my original Galaxy Tab, but am wondering when you will update it to support Honeycomb devices like the Galaxy Tab 10.1. It seems the screen size would allow for a great user experience. Count me in as a beta tester…
Comment by nushooz_99 — July 14, 2011 #
Have the application already and its fine however my problem is that i can send ims to people in my contacts but whenever they reply i dont receive any. I dont receive any ims at all but can send. Can anyone help me? How can fix this?
Comment by alexandria — July 21, 2011 #
The Messenger Android app has a colon – “:” – at the end of the title under the app icon, so instead of seeing “Messenger” I see “Messenger:”. Please fix this in the next update – it looks annoying. Xperia X10 (Android 2.3).
Comment by MrcACrl — August 30, 2011 #
I wait for the latest news,
Comment by crozzzlinx — September 22, 2011 #
At least SOMEOME is making an IM client for Android, Props. i think
Comment by columbia jackets — December 23, 2011 #
I dont receive any msg at all but can send. Can anyone help me? How can fix this?
Comment by ahad — December 25, 2011 #