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Yahoo launched a whole new mobile product called Yahoo Mobile. It comes in several different flavors, including a full application for the iPhone and other smartphone platforms such as S60 and BlackBerry OS, as well as browser-based version.

All of them do pretty much the same thing: Tie all of Yahoo's mobile services into one user interface.

Yahoo Mobile (for the iPhone) has five distinct tabs that hold different content. One if for Yahoo's news feed, one is for your own news feed, one is for all your messaging, one is for connecting and the last is a directory of every mobile service that Yahoo offers.

The user interface is very customizable, and it is easy to add or delete content at a whim. By making it a full application, Yahoo was able to take advantage of the iPhone's capabilities, such as scrolling through menus.

The application takes on a different form for other smartphone platforms. In S60, for example it populates screens with widgets that launch the Yahoo service, feed or content in question. On all the versions we tested, it was easy to figure out and use.

Here is a video demonstration so you get a better idea of how it works:

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