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Google’s YouTube player for s60

March 21st, 2009
Yesterday Google released a YouTube application for Symbian s60 based devices. This new application allows easily searching and watching of YouTube videos on mobile devices.

Well, it is sure looking promising! After installing it on my Nokia n85 and starting it, it took just 1 second to load and display on line content. This is how the main program looks like on my device:

You can search for any videos you’d like and you can also look at related videos, just as in the YouTube web version:

And here comes the big surprise. When you select a movie, the application uses its own implementation of video player, providing a supper fast loading and buffering time. It takes almost no time at all from the moment you select a movie until it starts playing. It also rotates the screen automatically with a nice spiral effect:

This is sure another great product Google is releasing for mobile devices, and a brilliant decision of them to leave J2ME aside and concentrate on the advantages Symbian platform has to offer.