Russia's Yandex.Mail lands on iPhone with IM, camera and location features
Users get full access to emails from their Yandex.Mail account, along with an IM feature and camera integration so that they take and send a photo all without leaving the iOS app. In addition, there’s support for external personal email accounts and a nifty location feature.
The app is “always ready with an answer to the ‘where are you?’ question”, says Anton Zabannykh, head of networking services at Yandex. This is delivered via a ‘Locate me’ option, which automatically creates a link to a Yandex map with the user’s current location, which can be instantly emailed from the phone. It’s another example of the integrated approach that Yandex can deliver given it’s Google-like array of consumer-facing web services.
Yandex.Mail’s iPhone app joins existing offerings for competing mobile platforms: Android, Windows Mobile, Symbian and Java.