If Yahoo Mail were a human, it'd be old enough to drive a car now. But it's not. So instead Yahoo revamped the design of its mail app for the desktop, tablet, and smartphone for the momentous occasion.
Flickr is clearly the cornerstone behind much of the redesigned experience. Building on its last major update, Yahoo added the ability to use high-res Flickr images as backgrounds for the new email experience. And like Yahoo's photo sharing platform, you can now get up to 1-terabyte of data storage for free. According to Yahoo senior vice president of communications Jeff Bonforte, it would take the average user upwards of 3,000 years to actually use up that much storage for their email.
For the redesign on the desktop, the menu items on the left are collapsible, and you get quick access to actions like deleting or starring an email simply by hovering your mouse pointer over it.
Other nice changes include a revamped threading system for conversations that's supposed to be smarter than the average subject line-based email threading. Users gain the ability to directly add a photo attachment to a message from the subject line of an email. If it doesn't make you nauseous, the app on iOS 7 also takes advantage of its parallax effect. Yahoo is also offering formerly premium-only features like disposable email accounts, email forwarding, and the ability to work with POP email clients for free now.
The redesign is available today for the desktop, iOS, Android, and Windows 8.
