The News
Yahoo already had a deal locking them into Nokia phones. Now the Yahoo mobile service, Yahoo Go, will be the default service available on Motorola phones too, starting in 2007. Here’s a quote from the I Need Hits Blog:
Yahoo! and Motorola have just announced a new deal that will see Yahoo! Go pre-installed on millions of Motorola handsets from early 2007. The new deal means that Yahoo! has now secured what could be market dominating deals with the world’s top two mobile phone manufacturers.
My Own Wild Theories, Rants, and Speculations
On the one hand, congrats Yahoo. On the other, am I the only person who feels like it’s enough already with the phones being smarter than me? I mean, I love that my RAZR can do little searches on the net, and take pictures, and do video. I don’t enjoy its Bluetooth compatibility, but I find it convenient. And in a crunch, being able to read my email is super, though it’s a bother to reply to, so I wait until I get there.
But mainly? I wish someone would just go ahead and integrate my phone service into my laptop.
Oh wait. I can do that with SkypeOut. And get free calls in the US and Canada until the end of the year. Never mind. 
Ok, I jest. (You can make and get calls on your laptop with Skype whenever you have a connection, but it’s not like your laptop can take pictures or fit in your back pocket.) Still though. It seems we should be able to fit all this technology into fewer places. I don’t even care if they’re that much smaller anymore…
