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Yahoo! Mail Out of Beta

August 27, 2007 by in Gadgets,News,Random with 9 Comments

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Yahoo!’s mail service is now out of beta. The super slick mail service changed to a very AJAX-like feel some time ago and it’s good to see not every single product out there is going to try to hide behind a “beta” tag forever. While it seems pretty nice I have to wonder if anyone is jumping ship with this. I personally just love the way my Gmail works and can’t see myself moving over.

Yahoo!’s mail does have the advantage of unlimited storage but the lack of POP3 access may be a deal breaker for some. SMS support is getting a lot of hype as well, but is that such a big deal? I can send text messages via MSN messenger (not sure about Yahoo!) and it seems to me that people would have an IM client open more than they would mail in their browser.

All in all this is looking like a give and take. While unlimited storage from Yahoo! is great, people are genuinely willing to pay for more storage with Gmail which is probably not that many people considering the storage is still quite a lot. What are your thoughts on the new Yahoo! Mail?

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  • chad

    if yahoo had free pop3 or imap i’d switch.

  • Nick

    Too much is going on in the interface. I couldn’t stick with it

  • Diesel

    If there were no ads in the E-mails you send then I would consider…

    3 gigs from Google is enough for now, so why change? Paranoia maybe :-)

  • http://ronaldpoi.imperu.net/ Ronald Poi

    I love Yahoo! but it doesn’t love Safari or Camino… i still have to use the last-century old Yahoo! Mail =(

  • http://www.saltypirate.com mark h

    Yahoo has been trying to get me (and I assume everyone else) to switch to this for a while now. It’s painfully slow. I’ll stick with the old (quick and simple) interface so long as they let me.

    Oh, and I just checked it again to make sure it’s just as slow now that it’s out of beta, and it is still slow, but also still claims to be in beta?

  • T D

    You REALLY sure about that? I logged in today and guess what…
    http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/1964/yahooxs4.jpg
    (just look at the image)(even look at the date if you don’t believe me)

  • http://digitalzack.blogspot.com Zack

    Same here.. Its still beta for me (Yahoo! 7 Australia).. i think maybe some of the Yahoo Server (like US) has offed the beta version

  • http://scopetech.net Evan

    Seems unanimous, it sucks!

  • dezy

    They’re updating them slowly. Basically what you do is when you log in, ALT+left click on the yahoo logo, and then a little dialog box pops up.
    the last line in the box has an address: it’s like web _ _ _ _ _.mail.re3.com (five numbers are in the blanks)
    the first three numbers after web are your “farm number”
    and the higher it is, the closer to the bottom of the list you are in waiting for the beta to be dropped.

    I’m in farm 843 so I’ll be one of the last to get my beta dropped! ARRRRGHHHHH

    it’s still not dropped!

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