Yahoo’s iPhone app consolidates everything you need from the group: news, mail, messenger, video, and so on. With its new voice search function, Yahoo’s app is now almost exactly like Google’s, so the choice to download one or the other is now a question of brand loyalty and where your Web e-mail address is hosted.
The upgrade comes in the shadow of Yahoo’s decision to abandon an application that stretches across all smartphones. The company decided to focus its efforts on the iPhone and the mobile Web browser experience rather than crafting all-in-one apps for individual smartphones.