Samsung mobile phones and smartphones, running
Samsung bada and Android platforms will be loaded with Yahoo! services starting in May 2010.
Samsung
will load Yahoo! services such as Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo!
Messenger, Yahoo! Front Page, Yahoo! Search, Yahoo! Flickr, Yahoo! News,
Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Contacts, Yahoo! Calendar, and Yahoo! Weather on
Samsung's mobile phones all over the world.
Dr. Ho Soo Lee, EVP, Media Solution Center, Samsung Electronics) and
David Ko, SVP, Audience, Mobile and Local, North America, Yahoo!
signed a strategic global partnership to pre-load Yahoo! services on tens of
millions of Samsung devices.
Samsung phones may come pre-loaded with one or more Yahoo! branded
services:
- Yahoo! Mail - Access your
favorite Web mail features: Read, reply, compose and send mail; view
attachments; get to your personal mail folders; and organize messages by
customizable groups. - Yahoo!
Messenger - Message
your friends reliably in real time: view their availability and quickly
see their status messages; update your own status; and show your style
with emoticons, avatars, or photos. - Yahoo! Contacts and Calendar -
Look up and/or add contact information and update your calendar. - Yahoo! Mobile Front Page -
Bring together your favorite content and services from anywhere across
the Internet to one location. - Yahoo!
Search - Get exactly
the information and answers you need when you are on the go. Search
results are grouped around your query, providing the most relevant
information on a single screen. - Yahoo!
Flickr - Take, share,
and discover photos and videos; geo-tag photos; and email them to your
Flickr account from your Samsung phone. - Yahoo! News - Get the news
you're interested in on your phone. Choose what is relevant to you from a
complete list of news categories, including entertainment, sports,
business, technology, and more. - Yahoo!
Finance - Follow broad
market indices or a specific company and read the day's top news,
research, and analysis to keep up-to-date about the financial world. - Yahoo! Weather - View current
weather conditions or a three-day forecast; search for weather
conditions by city; find sunrise and sunset times; and get wind,
visibility, humidity, and barometer readings.