Yahoo! Brings Voice to Messenger for Mac OS X – 3.0 beta 3 (98855)
It’s been a few months since the last update for Yahoo! Messenger for Mac (3.0 beta 2/78326) and finally Yahoo! has released a
significant update: 3.0 beta 3/98855.
Unfortunately the 3.0 beta 2 did not bring too many visible stability improvements (Y! Messenger crashed every time I would disable the Airport in my MacBook and then consequently enable it) and since November 2007 I tried to keep out of crashes by closing the application whenever I made any changes to the Mac OS X configuration. At some point it became very annoying with random crashes or application slowness.
New features in this version
Expectations from this version? I honestly could not care less for voice chat at this time, but I know that everyone using Yahoo! Messenger on Mac will appreciate a STABLE version as promised by the shy notes at the end of the change-log: Numerous improvements to stability and user experience.
Here is the full list of features brought by this version:
- Free voice conversations with other Messenger users on both Mac and Windows.
- Cheap PC-to-phone calls: make calls from Messenger to landline and mobile phones at low rates with Yahoo! Phone Out.
- Receive phone calls: get a phone number for your Messenger and start taking phone calls on your computer with Yahoo! Phone In. Plus, choose your area code!
- Now it’s easier than ever to send SMS text messages to your friends.
- Forward calls and voice conversations to another phone number.
- Get voicemail by email.
- Numerous improvements to stability and user experience.
