YouTube Mobile: released!
Google finally released their own (there have been some more or less well-working rip-offs in the past) mobile version of YouTube at m.youtube.com! the mobile XHTML-application utilizes external video-player software for playback (Real Networks’ media-player in case of most current Nokia-phones). unlike Robert Scoble, who’s on a Nokia N95 going for 750,- USD, everything worked fine on my oldschool Nokia 6630 (after I’ve setup the default data-gateway in my Real Player, that is). naturally, YouTube’s rather poor video-quality translates quite well to the low-resolution screens of most mobile phones…the biggest catch however is, that YouTube currently doesn’t provide all videos on their mobile portal (long tail anyone?). otherwise, the stripped down XHTML-app works quite well - after opening the frontpage, I’ve got video playback started within a single click. I only wish the search-box would have been placed on top of the page, not at the bottom…
have you tried out m.youtube.com on your phone yet? shoot me a comment, and don’t forget to mention which phone you’re on…
Sony Ericsson Z520i: after successfully connecting to the media server the whole phone froze and I had to reboot it twice. I guess I won’t use youtube on a daily basis on that phone…
what a shame… unfortunately SE’s home-brewn media-player has quite a record of incompatibilities…
actually I never had a closer look at the multimedia-features of that phone. I mostly use it for making phone calls, sms, checking calendar and emails. very old skool, I know…
I’m on an N95 and it works just fine for me. I had to go to tools->app settings->real player->network and set the default network on it to my gprs, but after that it streamed just fine.
I have a Cingular 8125 Pocket pc and i tried to use youtube mobile but Media Player says unknown Eror
interesting, thx Knight… I wonder if YouTube (weither the standard or the mobile version) is working on Windows Mobile devices at all…think I have to grab the HTC Touch my colleague bought yesterday to check… (pretty neat device btw, might be a good choice for everyone outside the US not wanting to wait til 2008 for an iphone
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just tried it on the HTC Touch - works like a charm!