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YouTube Mobile Updated

YouTube has updated its mobile website at m.youtube.com, significantly upping the video count and adding some good features. YouTube Mobile now has tens of millions of videos, according to the YouTube blog, including all of the videos from guys like me, available for streaming only in the 3GP format. In addition, videos you upload from your phone will now be made available for viewing literally within moments of the email/mms going through.

The big new feature is the ability to log in, which allows you access to your YouTube account. That means you can go directly to your own videos to share them with others, watch your favorite videos and visit your favorite Channels, and change some settings. You can now share videos, rate them and leave comments, right on your phone.

YouTube also released a downloadable client application for a limited number of J2ME phones, which works similarly to the Helio and iPhone clients for YouTube. It requires one of these phones:

• Sony Ericsson k800, w880
• Nokia e65, n95, n73, 6110 navigator and 6120 classic

The application can be download by going to m.youtube.com on your phone’s browser, which should result in a prompt to download it. No reason has been given as to why the application won’t work on other J2ME phones, which is quite a shame, since it means that many powerful phones, like Windows Mobile phones, still have no simple means of accessing YouTube.

Still, the updates are very good ones, with YouTube mobile going from a too-small video selection to including almost every video you’d ever want to watch, and the client app a great step in the right direction. Get that application on every major platform (Windows Mobile, Palm and BlackBerry), and there will be nowhere YouTube can’t go.

Here’s a video showing off the new features:

January 28th, 2008 Posted by Nathan Weinberg | Mobile, YouTube, Services | one comment