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The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent anyone else's view in any way, including those of my employer.
© Copyright 2008
As reviews go, this is going to be a really short one. While using the built in Blackberry browser to go to Yahoo, it detected my device, and asked me if I wanted to download this dedicated application. Thinking that I may as well give it a try, I downloaded it, and set it up. Clicking on it, the first screen asks for my user name and password. Easy enough you’d think, right? Wrong. While there’s no problem entering my user name, my password has a couple of special characters in it, as is recommended by most places that require a password i.e. erm… Yahoo!. So, I moved to the password field and hit the Symbol button on the Blackberry… this created a character in the password field rather than opening up the symbol option page as usually happens. Hmm, maybe if I hit the symbol button, then the appropriate key for the symbol that I use in my password, it’ll work?
Nope
So much for that. I have no desire to go and change my password in Yahoo, Trillian, and in the mail setup for my Blackberry, just so I can use this application, so this review has to stop right here, at the first hurdle. Not a good job there Yahoo!
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Just hit the symbol button until you see your desired character. While I admit that opening the symbol page is easier, you have to understand that Yahoo! Go has to use it’s own input methods to be able to react on all sorts of key events on VARIOUS different phones. That’s why the native input methods could not be supported everywhere.
Nope, if you hit the symbol button while in the password field all you see is the asterisk. Multiple hits on the symbol button = multiple asterisks…
If there is a way to get the correct symbol into the password field then great, but I haven’t found it yet…