The MyMobile application is AOL’s answer to the Yahoo Go mobile application that allows you to access many services from one downloaded application. It runs on Windows Mobile Smartphones and Pocket PCs and gives you access to your email, AIM and many other services. AOL Mymobile is currently in private beta and may allow public testing as soon as the next few weeks.
The interface is fairly similar to Yahoo Go and you switch services by rotating through a menu at the bottom. MyMobile includes the following services: AIM, Mail, Contacts, Mapquest, Search, Cityguide, Pictures, Sports, Weather and News. This is impressive since Yahoo Go 2.0, the latest for release for my HTC Wizard, does not include Yahoo Messenger.
They’re still working on some small kinks in the install and the interface. Though it took me a few tries to get MyMobile to install on my homebrew Windows Mobile 6.1, the Beta team was there to help all along the way. While most of the functions have red on black backgrounds like in the AIM colors while the loading screen is light blue.
Hopefully they can work out these kinks before an official release date. It’s really hard to find free Windows Mobile IM clients, so including AIM as well as Mail, Mapquest and Cityguide could make it a fairly attractive offering.
Note: I do work for AOL and these thoughts are all my own.
here’s to hoping it’s available for the blackberry. While it’s hard to argue the blackberry does mail well, I’m not at all impressed with the usability of the browser, so things like stock quotes and weather are a non-starter for me right now….
unfortunately i think it’s primarily targeted for the windows mobile platform, though it looks like it might be available for Treo as you can see here. the beta team was really helpful so they might be able to give you the long term prognosis for Blackberry.
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