I just installed Yahoo! Go mobile apps for Blackberry on my 8700g.
It’s a slick control panel (carousel) with search, news (headlines, finance, celeb, sports, weather), City Guide, Flickr interesting photos and Yahoo! mobile maps. News is available in many languages.
Takes about 6 seconds to load on my 8700g, but worth the wait. You can kill a lot of time playing with it and reading news. Not sure why it takes that long to close though.
The 700k download was easy and pretty much auto-installed. You’re asked for your Yahoo! ID, but for some strange reason they default the language to Canada (English) and the location to New York City Radio Hall. That’s just retarded since they already have your Yahoo! profile data.
The map is clear enough to read.
Google mobile maps allows keyboard navigation and has traffic flow and satellite view, but I can’t find that for Yahoo! maps. There is also a popup menu border display bug when you first activate the zoom menu with your trackwheel.
So Yahoo! engineers need to do some more work on the maps component.
Also, keep in mind that Yahoo! apps do record your personal usage info for ad and tracking purposes.
