AT&T and Yahoo are launching a service that lets people use Cingular mobile phones to get access to their photos, e-mail, instant messaging and address books on their Yahoo accounts, reports Reuters.
The AT&T Yahoo Go Mobile service is part of the Yahoo Go brand. Yahoo hopes to make its services available to users on a variety of devices from mobile phones to computers to televisions.
“It’s the first kind of baby steps toward this whole concept of an anytime-anywhere device,” said Matt Davis, director of consumer multiplay services at IDC, a market research firm in Framingham, Massachusetts.
Users will receive an alert when new emails arrive in their Yahoo Mail inbox. The phone will beep, as it does with BlackBerry wireless email service.
Go Mobile, which will be available on the Nokia 6682 mobile phone, will be sold online, in AT&T’s 13-state service area. The unlimited monthly service costs about $19.99 a month, an AT&T spokesman said.
The phone, which includes an MP3 music player and a digital voice recorder, costs $199.99 after a $50 mail-in rebate from Nokia with a two-year subscription to a Cingular wireless service plan. Cingular is the nation’s largest wireless company and jointly owned by AT&T and BellSouth.
Nokia’s 1.3 megapixel 6682 might also be handy for Moblogs (Mobile Blogs). The phone can run Nokia’s LifeBlog software as well as the free ShoZu (beta) application which enables easy photo uploads to a number of free photo services including Yahoo’s Flickr, Buzznet, TextAmerica and Webshots. ShoZu users can share full quality images and video content and enables two-way interactive comment sharing.
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