Forget third party YouTube applications

[Guest kingsloi]

So I'm on the bus home, decided to browse YouTube for a while (may aswell put data plan to good use, aye?) When I noticed a link on the top of the screen: "Download the YouTube Application". I clicked it, redirected to m.google.co.uk/ and behold, there was the link to the YouTube Applcation.

I've been using the YouTube.cab which has been floating around, you know, the REALLY buggy one? It wasn't that bad at times but other times it was annoying as hell :)

When I installed this, I wasn't expecting anything good. But daammmmmmmn, it's lovely!

To Download:

Go to htttp://m.youtube.com

Click the link, either at the top or bottom of the page, you'll be redirected

Download the .cab

Install it to either Internal or external storage, it'll show up in your program files

This is what the "Home" looks like, you can search or view Highlighted videos.

It also saves what you search for in the text box in a drop down menu for easy use

This is the results page for whatever you searched for

You can either use the screen to navigate through the different videos or use the d-pad (well, on my Omnia you could)

Find the video you want to play

When you click the video, it automatically rotates to landscape mode (really nice and smooth too)

You can use the play bar at the bottom to skip or go back to certain points of the video (really useful, smooth aswell)

Also you can view "Related videos" of the video you searched for by clicking the "Menu" on the bottom right, on the menu you can also "Flag" videos and get help or just exit

It's really quick, even on "G" the speed was relatively quick and only buffered for a second or two.

Personally I think Google/YouTube have done a really good job.

Sorry if this is a repost, but thought I'd share.

-Kinglsey

Edited September 8, 2009 by kingsloi