Yahoo Messenger on your GPRS Enabled Handset

Sree Pillai — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:25:09 +0000

We have recently written about using Yahoo! Messenger for SMS. It works with text message send to a shortcode and does not need any GPRS or data packages enabled. Today let us see how you can access Yahoo Messenger from GPRS enabled phones and chat with your friends. [This functionality has been there for very long time, we are writing about this in detail just to bring it up again. As more than 30% of new mobile users in India are from the villages and using the very basic phone models, this might be useful for them, if they know what yahoo messenger is!]

Yahoo Messenger Via Yahoo WAP Site

Yahoo WAP site provides you access to many yahoo services including Search, Yahoo Mail, Yahoo Messenger, Address Book, Calendar, etc.. Yahoo India WAP site provides cricket scores also.

To get the link to the Yahoo WAP site, send an SMS YAHOO to 58243 from your Indian mobile phone. To Sign in to Yahoo! Messenger via WAP on your GPRS enabled handset, first log on to the Yahoo Wap Site.

You may try the Yahoo India WAP site in.wap.yahoo.com or wap.yahoo.com You can also use the direct link to Mobile Messenger mm.yahoo.com

From your GPRS phone, go to Services -> Go to Address – > and enter the Yahoo WAP url On the Wap Site, click on Messenger -> Sign in. Enter in your Yahoo ID & password and click on sign in.

You can send an IM to an online friend by just clicking on the friends name -> enter message & click send. Similarly, reply to any message sent to you, add friends & much more.

Yahoo provides WAP access for free, however data charges may apply as per your operator.

You need to be connected via WAP in order to receive or send a message. With the Yahoo Messenger for SMS, you just have to send the sign in command and forget until you receive a message or send a message. That is, SMS option works in asynchronous mode while WAP works in synchronous mode.

Yahoo! SMS Client

If you have a GPRS enabled phone, you can log on to Yahoo! Messenger using the client application also. With the SMS Client, you don’t need to remember SMS commands or short codes anymore.

You can download the client if you have a GPRS enabled phone. In India, send an sms YMSG to 58243 to receive a service message to download the client.

You can as well Download FREE SMS Login Client to your computer and then to your mobile via bluetooth.

You need to choose your handset model and click on download button to download on to your computer. Once Downloaded on the Desktop, use bluetooth or a data cable to download it to your mobile phone.

According to the yahoo website, the client supports the following mobile phones.

Motorola-V3
Nokia 3100, 3200, 3220, 3230, 3650, 6020, 6220, 6230, 6260, 6600, 6630, 6670, 6680, 6681, 7250I 7610 and N-GageQD
SAMSUNG-X100
SonyEricsson K300i, K500i, K508i, K700i, K750i, P910i

But I think, the above list is very old and the client supports many other new mobile phones also. To check it out,

Signing in to Yahoo! Messenger via SMS by just clicking on the SMS Login Client Icon in the main menu of your mobile. Enter your Yahoo! ID and Password in the screen that follows and click on enter.

You are now signed in. A list of options is now available to you like List Friends, Search Friends, Message a Friend, etc..

To send an IM, just click on Message a friend, enter the Yahoo! ID of the person you want to send the IM to the message & click on send.

You can search for friends and you can see whos online, whos not, and send a message to any of the buddies on you messenger list, just like you would do online.

Topics: Chat, Messenger, SMS, WAP, Yahoo

BigAdda.com on Your Mobile Phone – Access Via SMS, WAP or Mobile Java Client

Sree Pillai — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 09:13:38 +0000

BigAdda.com, claimed to be the number 1 youth network in India,introduced Mobile Adda, the mobile version of BigAdda.com. BigAdda claims that, this is the first time that a social networking site will be available on mobiles in a holistic manner.

MobileAdda Features:

Sign up/sign in
Scribbles: Receive, read, reply and send (Text/Audio/photo scribbles)
Emoticons and Shout outs
Friend Requests: Accept, Decline and Send
Search: name, age, Work place, school/ colleges, ProfileID
Invite: By phone numbers, email, phonebook gobbler
Backup and retrieve phonebook
Online status: Know when friends are online
Photos: Click and send, View
Privacy: Choose to receive scribbles only from friends

It will now be possible to send out a personalized invite to friends in your phonebook and get started with all of them online from their respective phones within an hour. GPRS connections are now available without the need to particularly subscribe for it. The platform is available as an integrated offering across SMS, WAP and as an installable application for over 500 different mobile phone models. To date, this is the widest release of any mobile application globally.

How can you access MobileAdda

SMS

send BIGADDA to 55454 BigAdda users who have signed up for Mobile will receive scribbles on their phone when they are offline. Only scribbles from friends will be forwarded to the mobile phone. Users can also receive and approve friend requests using SMS.

WAP

Access wap.bigadda.com from your mobile phone browser. The WAP site will serve as mobile formatted version of the website for mobile users with GPRS connectivity. Through this WAP service, you can register; search for users, user information and photos; add Friend, invite by phone numbers, rate, remove or block; send, read and reply to scribbles; and view scribbles of other users. You can also send and receive shout outs, view and update profiles, and view and comment on photos.

Mobile Client Application

You can download the client application for your mobile phone from wap.bigadda.com/download or send an sms ADDA to 55454.

This mobile client application enables users to use the phonebook to send invitations to his/her closest network. The built in phone book backup utility stores your phone book on BigAdda servers and if in case a user changes a device, the same can be retrieved. The client application is currently available on over 500 devices. There are over 50 device families that the download process detects.

Topics: BigAdda, SMS, Social Networking, WAP

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