NEW DELHI, INDIA: Yahoo! Inc., on Thursday announced the immediate availability of Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger and Yahoo! Search Widget for Android devices.

Leveraging the latest HTML5 technology, Yahoo! is also debuting Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! News sites for iPhone and iPod Touch.

David Ko, senior vice president, Americas, Audience, Mobile, and Local for Yahoo! Said, “Yahoo! keeps more than 600 million consumers around the world connected to the people and things that matter to them most – wherever and whenever they want.”

“With the availability of Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger apps for Android and by harnessing the latest in HTML5, we’re making it easier than ever for consumers to access fast, reliable, and feature-rich Yahoo! experiences across some of the fastest growing platforms in the market,” he added.

The Yahoo! Mail and Yahoo! Messenger Android apps are available globally as free downloads available in the Android Market, supporting OS 2.0 or newer.

Additionaly, the Yahoo! Mail app for Android offers advertisers an opportunity to reach a highly engaged mobile audience. Samsung is the inaugural advertiser with a rich media display advertising unit.
 
Also available today, the Yahoo! Search Widget for Android provides consumers with convenient one-click access to Yahoo! Search. After the Widget is installed, a Yahoo! Search box is easily accessible on the home screen. With voice search for easier input, Search Assist for quick suggestions and recommendations, and auto-locate technology to deliver locally relevant results, the Yahoo! Search Widget quickly provides the answers a consumer needs, said a press release.

The Yahoo! Search Widget is currently available in the U.S. only for free. It is available for download in the Android Market and supports OS 2.0 or newer.