Mobile YouTube Application

Thursday, January 24, 2008

Mobile YouTube Application

YouTube updated its mobile site available at m.youtube.com to include all the videos from the desktop version and to provide access to your account, the option to rate videos and post ~~meaningful~~ comments. To use the mobile interface, you need a phone that is able to stream 3GP files over RTSP.

But there's a better way to play YouTube videos from your mobile phone: a Java midlet currently available for some phones from Sony Ericsson (K800, W880) and Nokia (S60 3rd Edition phones: N73, N95, E65, 6110, 6120). The JAR file for Nokia phones can be found here, in case you want to test it on unsupported phones. YouTube's mobile application also lets you upload videos from your phone. To install it, just go to m.youtube.com/app on your phone and follow the steps described in YouTube's help center.

"You may be wondering, Is YouTube for Mobile the same as what's available on the Helio Ocean or Apple iPhone? In a nutshell, yes -- YouTube for Mobile is all about bringing video to mobile phones. We believe in providing the best user experience possible for all users, which in some cases means different YouTube solutions for different phones," explains the YouTube blog.

Labels: Mobile, YouTube

29 comments ( Post a comment )

KenBW2 said on January 25, 2008 3:59 PM PDT:

Oh good, it's now useful... But of course, everyone uses YouTube to watch Little Johnny talking to his webcam [hmmm...]

Valentin said on July 2, 2008 3:15 PM PDT:

I have a problem with this mini Youtube. I have no audio! I have reinstalled like 5 times.

I mention that the audio works on my phone (N95-1).

Anonymous said on July 15, 2008 7:25 AM PDT:

THIS PROGRAM IS GREAT BUT IT WORKS ON MORE MOBILES THAN THE ONES MENTIONED,,,I TRIED IT ON MY N78 AND IT WORKED FINE
THXX

Anonymous said on July 18, 2008 8:36 PM PDT:

N82 fine too...
GREAT!! thx, bro

Anand said on July 18, 2008 11:38 PM PDT:

when can we have this application for windows mobile (HTC touch cruise)

Soulxlight said on August 4, 2008 6:38 PM PDT:

Works fine on my w580i . . . just putting this here so others will know.

-Download it and transfer it to your phone.
-From there it is easy as any other application.

Anonymous said on August 29, 2008 10:11 AM PDT:

Does it work on a Blackberry 8700g?

SAIRUS...®`™ said on September 10, 2008 8:00 AM PDT:

Waaawwww an Amazing Application ..
i do like it sooo much
But Why no saving videos on my phone .so i can view them anytime i like

zvenobg said on September 19, 2008 2:30 AM PDT:

For windows mobile devices use the JBLEND java emulator and please DON'T install it on the card but in the internal memory!
Best revision here:
http://www.4shared.com/file/62502800/f4dd925b/SJ_JBlendJava_0_0_20080507_1_1.html?s=1

Henit said on September 22, 2008 8:35 AM PDT:

Hi everyone.

A few days ago, I was surfing the web and I found out a project that works over most mobile phones which lets you know where your friends are in real time and update your status in twitter. It´s called Dimdix.

On their website they say you don´t need a GPS system to detect your location. Does anyone know how this works?

I´m using a Motorola L7 and amazingly it detected my location.

I cannot stop thinking of all the things I could do with it.

If anyone wants to take a look you can go here

Thanks,

Regards,

Juan

Sharon Vaknin said on October 18, 2008 2:38 PM PDT:

This should be available to for Windows Mobile!

ana said on November 23, 2008 2:56 AM PDT:

how can we save the video to phone

Anonymous said on December 13, 2008 3:33 AM PDT:

make it run on the e51, it installs fine but the videos dont play over edge and nothing loads over wifi

Anonymous said on December 19, 2008 8:38 AM PDT:

Sony Ericsson W760. Yes!

Anonymous said on December 20, 2008 6:12 PM PDT:

wtf i can install on n 82 why ?:| Anonymous said
N82 fine too...
GREAT!! thx, bro .. ????? how ?

Anonymous said on January 2, 2009 4:10 AM PDT:

can this work on a motorola a1200 ming?

ranger93 said on January 2, 2009 2:36 PM PDT:

I Foorgot My Mobile Password ? How Do I Retreive or RESET

Anonymous said on February 11, 2009 1:42 PM PDT:

OK people. To get audio working on the youtube application, you must have your phone on "General" (for nokias). then you must check that the volume is up on the actual youtube application. if that still doesnt work, then you should consider reinstalling the application or maybe updating your phone.
Hope this helped.

grizz said on February 23, 2009 7:17 PM PDT:

what does this cost

Anonymous said on February 28, 2009 9:24 PM PDT:

How about the Sony Ericsson X1??

james said on March 10, 2009 1:38 AM PDT:

it says i dont have a big enough screen but my screen is 3 inches?

Anonymous said on April 5, 2009 3:52 PM PDT:

wonder if this works on storm 9530 from blackberry

rathna said on April 9, 2009 8:18 PM PDT:

how do i get this application for my htc p3400 mobile

Anonymous said on April 23, 2009 4:03 AM PDT:

i tried to download on my blackberry,did anybody have any luck downloading it........

Anonymous said on April 24, 2009 10:45 AM PDT:

Does this application work for Blackberry????? This would be a nice app for BB.

Anonymous said on May 1, 2009 5:06 PM PDT:

will this work for the samsung instinct

Anonymous said on June 17, 2009 9:40 AM PDT:

I think its a great app! It would be even better if it worked on the Blackberry OS.

Anonymous said on June 27, 2009 10:38 PM PDT:

something to samsung t629? help us!

Anonymous said on June 30, 2009 11:33 AM PDT:

I've tried the app, donloaded the latest 2.0.1 on my E63, on WLAN very choppy playback. Go to the mobile version of the site or even the full desktop version, play the video embedded or even in full screen mode and it plays smoothly on same WLAN connection. Tried on 2 different phones, with and without added 4Gb class 4 SDHC, same results. Deleted app, will use web browser instead. Shame, the interface looked good, the performance stinks.

What do you think?