Razvan Antonescu

The Yahoo Messenger team has kept their promise made when they launched the 2.0 version of their Iphone / Ipod Touch app and today they released version 2.0.1 that enables video calling for Ipod Touch users that have the latest (4th) generation.

This is a big step not only for Yahoo but for all the Iphone / Ipod Touch users that will benefit from the new standards imposed by Yahoo. Let’s see who’s going to be next:

• Skype? They have the infrastructure as Fring used their API to do the same thing. It should be very easy for them to turn it on
• Google? They don’t have a custom Gtalk Iphone / Ipod Touch app but would add value to their current IM offering

I know that there are other apps around that provide the same features, but let’s face it. Without multi platform integration and forcing the users to subscribe to yet another service is freaking epic fail.

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As was previously announced, Yahoo Messenger 2.0 is now live on the Apple Store. Unfortunately this is not the best app and is missing the basic things:

• As an app specifically builty for iOS 4.1, the icons are not made for the retina screen and look like crap
• Even though the Ipod Touch 4th gen has 2 cameras and works with Face time, Yahoo made this version compatible only with Iphone 3GS and 4

Hopefully, based on user pressure we will be seeing a new version pretty soon that fixes all this issues

UPDATE:

And here we have it, an official answer from the development team, on their official blog:

We’re working on support for video on iPod Touch 4 and hope to release an update very shortly. Appreciate your patience.

Sherrine
Yahoo! Messenger Team

So, I just hope that short means short

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