2 posts tagged “mobile”

Recently, filmmaker Spike Lee announced a partnership with Nokia to make www.nokiaproductions.com.
The site wants users to upload mobile created films and Mr Lee will pick the best ones to assemble a larger film.  This reminded me of a project from 2 years ago.

Youtube app now available for mobile
Originally uploaded by Route79

By now you've probably heard about the new Youtube Mobile app. Point your mobile phone's browser to m.youtube.com/app to get it. If youtube wont let you download it, there's a download available at the Symbian in Motion blog here.

First, let's go into what's bad about this new app. The video quality isn't that great. It uses streaming 3gp to be compatible with many java phones. The worst part is you cant get fullscreen video.

A great alternative for S60 fans would be to get emtube. Its compatible with pretty much every s60v3 device out there and plays in fullscreen and higher quality.

But Youtube Mobile does have its good sides. It's attached to your account, so your you can watch your own videos, favorites, playlists and subscriptions.

Most importantly, it has an upload feature. This is great, since MMS has size limits. Shozu is an alternative, but that app is too unstable. It would be great if youtube would work with Nokia's Share Online app.

If you want to upload videos, Youtube will repeatedly ask you to accept. This is really annoying and there's a simple way around this.

Go into your Tools and open the App Manager. Open the Youtube app and change all the settings to either "Ask Once" or "Always Allowed". This will make uploading videos from your phone very easy.

Youtube is a pretty great app from the folks at Google. Last year, Google made Google Maps a full S60 app. Let's hope they make a full S60 version of Youtube Mobile that supports fullscreen video.