Looking at the news on Yahoo! and Google blogs, I see them thinking about more features and upgrades. So, iPhone is something that we are going to see more mobile features being developed. Its no wonder because iPhone, after is something that comes from the Mac family. Well, Just wondering when they are going to hit Indian market !! or is it already here ? anyone ?

Whats the news that made me think all these, ?

Yahoo! Messenger for Mac, is getting voice feature on it soon !! Well, isn’t it good enough to avoid your mobile bills and just pay the bill for internet on your iPhone ? hmm this is a good one dear Yahoo! and and as far as I know, google is yet to have gtalk with voice on iPhone. If you guys know about it, just drop me a comment.

Now, whats Google doing with iPhone ?

“At Macworld today, version 1.1.3 of Apple’s iPhone software was announced that includes updates to Google Maps for mobile and IMAP access to Gmail. ”

Google Maps is something that I am yet to try something on. So, I can’t comment. But, its really interesting to see IMAP added to iPhone’s Gmail.

Whats IMAP ? If you need a technical explanation, go right here. To make it simple, earlier, when iPhone was just downloading the email from gmail, and keeping it in your phone. The changes that you make on these messages on your iPhone, will not have any effect on your gmail inbox because its already a local file. But with IMAP, you are directly dealing with the contents in your gmail inbox itself, real time.

The most important thing that I see here, is you get the “real” gmail in to your phone not, just a POP access, like normal email IDs of hosted websites ( they have IMAP too, FYI ). Once you have the real Gmail on your phone, don’t you think more feature are going to be added, sooner ?

……because I never knew about this feature of Yahoo! Messenger

I never knew that while on a voice call, I can play a background music, from a file which I choose from. Well, thats a cool idea if we have some nice music going on while talking to someone. I should think about some nice songs for this now, and check out if my net connection is good enough to play music while on call !

From Yahoo! Messenger Blog,

” I’ve used the Soundtrack feature for a few different things – introducing a friend to a new song, singing along to a track to entertain a friend, or even to listen to a MP3 podcast together. Try adding a soundtrack to your next call in Yahoo! Messenger.”

Thats really interesting.. isn’t it ? I will check this out soon and let you know if it works well . ( I am not writing the usual line, try this out and be sure to post your experience here because you guys never do this !! I am disappointed )

You can see how to enable this, if you read a bit more here Do you have some other hidden features to share ? Well, shoot it here ..

Would like to try voice recoding on your Yahoo! messenger ? Here is how you can do it. This article explains how you can record your calls on Yahoo! messenger using a third party software. The software that you are going to use is HostRecorder. ( nice name isn’t it ? )

HotRecorder is free if you only need to record calls that are 2 minutes or less; the premium version is $14.95.

Actually, its a handy tool even though I do not have such requirements like that at the moment ! Well, will google talk follow same or somewhat the same track thats the question that I am actually interested in. Should wait, n watch.