Yahoo announces Mail, Messenger apps and a Search widget for Android

These days, no web service can afford to not be available as an Android application. After looking at its growing pace and number of users, Yahoo!, a bit late though, has announced the release of official Mail and Messenger apps and a Yahoo! search widget for Android phones. This is to make its services available to huge and ever growing number of Android users.

These new applications are optimized for the Android platform, especially for the leading Android phones - Google Nexus One, Motorolla Droid, HTC Incredible. They support all phones running Android 2.0 or above.

The Yahoo! Mail app has variety of features including push notification for received emails, you can send emails to people from either your Yahoo! contacts or native phone book, advanced options for searching emails, rich text formatting and emoticons, uploads photos and attachments directly from camers and a lot more.

The Yahoo! Messenger app lets you send instant messages in the form of SMS text messges, it can stay in the background and will let you know of new messages and friend requests using push notifications and you can send photos to friends directly from your camera or photo gallery.

For the search widget, the option will be accessible from the home screen. One of the cool features is the integration of voice search which even gives you suggestions for the entered query.