This way, Shoemaker says, you can view the photos while remaining in the context of the conversation.Īside from photos, the new Yahoo Messenger also lets users send GIFs thanks to the the extensive Tumblr database. Unlike the vertical stack that most messaging apps display multiple photos, on the new Yahoo Messenger, you can simply swipe through the photos from left to right and vice versa. And if you want, you can also go ahead and select the photo to download it in the full original quality.Īdditionally, if you send several photos at once, they'll be displayed horizontally underneath the message. In a product demonstration, I was amazed at how quickly photos were messaged to each other, even though they were full high-res images. The original photo is then uploaded in the background." The photos are shared instantly in the message timeline - no need to wait for that annoying upload progress bar - because the images are pushed and stored to the cloud immediately, with only a small cache stored locally on the phone. "A small preview of the photo is uploaded and appears in the conversation. "The new Yahoo Messenger achieves both speed and quality by streaming photos into the conversation," explains Shoemaker. "But we thought: Why not have both?"īy subscribing, you are agreeing to Engadget's Terms and Privacy Policy. In contrast, WhatsApp downgrades images in order to send them quicker. With iMessage, for example, it opts to send you a high-res photo, but it takes awhile to do so.
"In most messaging apps, you have to decide between quality or speed," explained Austin Shoemaker, senior director of product management for Yahoo Messenger. This, according to Bonforte, is sort of Yahoo Messenger's secret sauce to handling and processing images. And since it so happens that Yahoo also owns Flickr, it made sense for them to harness Flickr's powerful photo management platform for its messaging product as well.
Jeff Bonforte, Yahoo's Senior VP for communication products, told us that one of the most popular usecases for messaging is sharing photos. Like on WhatsApp, you can name each conversation group too - maybe you can have one for "drinking buddies" and one for "weekend warriors."Īnd it's not just about slinging text at each other either. Anyone in the group can add another chat buddy. It understands relationships between contacts - which are incidentally culled from your email address book instead of your phone's - so as soon as you add one person to the conversation, it'll guess the next participant (based on how often you talk to the same people) and so forth. To that end, the new Yahoo Messenger makes it super easy to add contacts to conversations. Key to the experience is that Yahoo has created the new Messenger with group messaging in mind.
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