Yahoo Messenger for iPhone

Yahoo Messenger is one of the more popular chat clients, boasting millions upon millions of users. Connecting and communicating with those multitudes gets a wee bit easier with the free Yahoo Messenger mobile app for the iPhone and iPod touch. A pleasant interface and the promise of future enhancements by Yahoo makes this an ideal mobile app for Yahoo Messenger users.

With the app installed on your mobile device, you can chat with other Messenger contacts, share photos (whether they're stored on your device or taken with the iPhone's built-in camera), archive conversations, and enter a custom status message. Yahoo Messenger also offers an invisible mode, where you can be online but look like you are offline. You can send an SMS message from Yahoo Messenger to either your IM contacts or iPhone contacts.

And what if you don't have a Messenger account? You can sign up directly from the iPhone. Searching for contacts through the app is easy--you can type a portion of a contact name when searching and change the sort order of the results.

Messenger stays active if you take a call or switch to another app. The caveat here is that you'll only stay signed on for 10 minutes if you stop using the app. Like other iPhone chat apps, though, Yahoo Messenger is limited by the iPhone OS's inability to let apps in the background--you have to be in the app to receive alerts. That's likely to change with the summer arrival of iPhone 3.0 and its support for push notifications, however. "

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