You Tube

YouTube is a phenomenon, the perfect playground and medium for the vidiot generation, and I personally am extremely grateful to the designers, those who contribute to the site as well as the guys who maintain it. But what most people, including myself are even more grateful for are the portable versions for mobile handsets. Until now very few manufacturers have bothered to incorporate a preloaded YouTube client onto their handsets. Apple’s iPhone and HTC are two of the few that have managed to deliver.

However, the limitation has been expanded and YouTube has now come up with the perfect solution by designing and releasing native applications for the Symbian S60 platform as well as another version for Windows Mobile devices.

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For the Windows mobile users, the YouTube app will use Silverlight instead of Flash. For the Symbian users, they will be able to access all features just like they would via the PC. However there are a few negatives. For example reports have stated that it can’t save videos for later viewing, there’s no support yet for Nokia’s 5800 XpressMusic handset since the app has been specifically designed to support handsets with a display resolution of 240 x 320 pixels. We’re quite sure though that an update will be out any time in the near future.

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To download and install the application simply go to m.youtube.comfrom your mobile browser and download the application onto your S60 or Windows Mobile enabled device and you’re good to go.