Google expands YouTube Mobile: Watch any video on your phone

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Google expands YouTube Mobile: Watch any video on your phone

by Brad Linder Jan 24th 2008

YouTube has launched some major upgrades to its mobile video site. While a number of blogs are reporting that Google launched a new m.youtube.com site today, that web page has actually been active since last summer.

But when YouTube Mobile launched, users could only access a small subset of YouTube videos. Now Google has made the entire YouTube universe available via the mobile site. The new improved mobile site has all the usual features. You can search, favorite, leave comments, or share videos with friends. Plus you can rack up minutes on your data plan. How can you beat that?

Google has also released a public beta of a YouTube Java midlet that should work on some phones. Nokia's N73, N95, E65, 6110, 6120 and SonyEricsson k800 and w880 are officially supported, but you may have some luck getting the program to run on other handsets if you're lucky.

[via NewTeeVee]

Tags: m.youtube.com, mobile, youtube

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

JP said 8:12PM on 1-24-2008

It's a very nice app they've got with a great UI... But be careful! It tries to connect to mobile data even though I told it to connect through WiFi. That's a huge problem for me given that my provider charges $10 per MB for data.

miro said 10:53PM on 1-24-2008

I was able to bring up the site but couldn't play any videos (AT&T Tilt, WM6). I got a RealPlayer error... "media type not supported". Yay.

Frode said 8:52AM on 1-25-2008

AWESOME on the Nokia E51, this is TV on the phone finally!

But where is this symbian app that you speak of, I can't find it anywhere. Site works great though so there is no need really.

Brad said 9:54AM on 1-25-2008

Miro...

I got the same error on my ATT/8525.
I'd like to be able to get these. I don't know why they wouldn't work.

Oh well.

Frode said 11:45AM on 1-25-2008

Windows Mobile *cough* hack* cough*

Kennon Chi said 8:17AM on 2-05-2008

I really like watch Youtube.

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