The Yahoo! Mobile Service has been one of the first few Web based
portals to launch a WAP service.

In doing so, Yahoo! enabled its services
to be accessed to be accessed from any device on the move. The
Yahoo! WAP site currently supports the ability to read e-mails from
the inbox and also compose new mails. Apart from the other download
services, it also supports the ability to check your yahoo messenger
contacts on the move.

Though this service is in no way user
friendly, since you have to keep re-loading the page to check if the
other person has replied, it still is a step in the right direction.

Logging In
Getting into the site is similar to doing it on the web. You enter
your username and password on the front page and that takes you
to another page where you can choose from E-mail, Messenger and
other services of Yahoo!. If you do not have a Yahoo! id then you
can only create it off the Yahoo! Web site.

Messenger
On signing on, the messenger function of the Yahoo! WAP site displays
all the groups that you have created. You have to go into each
group, which loads a separate page every time, to see which of
your buddies are online.

If you want to chat with your buddies, all
you need to do is click on their name and that will bring up a very
arcane user interface to enter the text to your friend.

Once the instant message (IM) is sent, there is no way to know
if your friend has replied or not, unless you reload the page. This
can be very frustrating and annoying.
In Parting
We feel that the messenger client on the WAP site should be
improved upon by Yahoo! if they want to make better in-roads into
the mobile social networking scene. The system that exists right
now was cutting edge way back in 1997.