Apple releases update for the iPhone, Sprint announces the Katana and VE20 handsets, Google tests out Youtube ads and Visa offers new mobile service. Here is today’s mobile round up.
YouTube has expanded its mobile service to include the majority of the videos available on its website. Now most cell phone users should be able to access YouTubes videos from their mobile phones. Users can now also rate videos they watch and share those video clips with friends.
If you’re an iPhone fan (or even if you’re not) you might appreciate this YouTube video entitled “Hit me on My iPhone” parodying iPhone ownership with an iPhone rap.
LG has announced that the LG Viewty dubbed the “YouTube phone” is now DivX certified. This certification will allow the handset to play full length DivX movies that have been downloaded as well as likely stream them over the handsets 3G HSDPA data connection.
Here is a glimpse of the upcoming LG KU990, which looks like a distant cousin of the LG Prada Phone. However it’s not the chic form factor that has us excited but the phone’s ability to fully support Youtube. Via the phone users can upload and view Youtube videos however for now LG prefers to stay mum about the capabilities of the KU990. Other features believed to make its way on the phone include; 5-megapixel camera, HSDPA connectivity, built-in FM radio, MP3 player and microSD card slot.
Don’t have an iPhone? Don’t let that stop you from watching YouTube on your mobile. Samsung has just announced their own “YouTube Phone” a handset designed to bring YouTube to users at 3G speed. The handset allows users to not only watch YouTube video but they can also record video and upload it directly to YouTube, uBlog, and Buzzer directly from the handset. The Samsung SGH-L760 is expected in Germany and other parts of Europe later this month.
LG today in a press release announced their tie-up with Youtube to develop a mobile phone, which can fully utilize the video service. According to LG via the proposed phone users will be able to upload, view and share video clips or user-created content (UCC) online without a PC. Sounds pretty neat and looks like LG is heading in the right direction.
“LG Electronics will unveil the mobile handset that fully supports the YouTube service for the first time in Europe in the second half of this year,'' the South Korean firm said in a statement.
Starting Monday you’ll be able to a few new things with your HelioOcean. Starting Monday the phone will integrate with Flickr for photos and YouTube for videos allowing users to automatically send their pictures and videos to the web.
It wasn’t too long ago when YouTube was only available for Verizon users. Now if you’re rocking a pretty substantial data plan on your handset then you too can watch videos of skateboarding dogs and other uncanny mishaps caught on tape. Helio has decided to cash in on YouTube being free for everyone by coming up with a way to charge for it. Helio users can pay $5.99 a month and score access to a “Video Virus”service that includes video from YouTube as well as eBaum’s World and a few other sites.
Looks like YouTube is indeed headed to the iPhone, as Apple officially confirmed YouTube's presence as the twelfth bundled application. The player uses the support originally intended for Apple.TV (to our knowledge, anyway) using h.264 streaming support. YouTube has converted about 10,000 videos over for today's launch of YouTube on the AppleTV, and YouTube says they're planning to continue to convert videos to h.264 till their entire library plays on the AppleTV and iPhone, which should be complete in the fall.
It was only a matter of time before “Times Best Invention of 2006”, Youtube went mobile. Youtube Mobile was unveiled recently and the site m.youtube.com is finally live! The xHTML site lets you stream videos and one can also upload their videos. One will be privy to galore of videos in different categories like Featured, Recently Added, Most Viewed, Top Rated and People etc. All videos are in 3GP format.
Looks like the old adage "don't talk to strangers" doesn't hold true anymore! Youtube user Ryan Fitzgerald decided to council anyone who needed help and posted his T-Mobile number via an embedded video! According to Boston Globe, the boy has received more than 5,000 calls and text messages.
Fitzgerald said he wanted to "be there," for anyone who needed to talk. "I never met you, but I do care," a spiky-haired Fitzgerald said
However soon T-Mobile will begin charging him as his weekend minutes will get over! But this has not stopped the boy from his generous (and strange) endeavor!
"I haven't quite figured out what I'm going to do about it," he said. "Come Monday, no way I'm going to just hang up on people and say, 'I don't have the minutes.'"
Canada is getting into the mobile phone game throughout North America.
Rogers Communications Inc., Canada’s biggest mobile operator, is offering video calling to North America.The company has developed a new HSDPA network, and upgraded services to boot.
Besides the video calling, the company is also adding some serious must-have’s for the wireless maniac.What should be a selling point alone, Roger’s will be providing the top 50 videos on YouTube each week.
Apple releases update for the iPhone, Sprint announces the Katana and VE20 handsets, Google tests out Youtube ads and Visa offers new mobile service. Here is today’s mobile round up.
YouTube has expanded its mobile service to include the majority of the videos available on its website. Now most cell phone users should be able to access YouTubes videos from their mobile phones. Users can now also rate videos they watch and share those video clips with friends.
LG has announced that the LG Viewty dubbed the “YouTube phone” is now DivX certified. This certification will allow the handset to play full length DivX movies that have been downloaded as well as likely stream them over the handsets 3G HSDPA data connection.
Don’t have an iPhone? Don’t let that stop you from watching YouTube on your mobile. Samsung has just announced their own “YouTube Phone” a handset designed to bring YouTube to users at 3G speed. The handset allows users to not only watch YouTube video but they can also record video and upload it directly to YouTube, uBlog, and Buzzer directly from the handset. The Samsung SGH-L760 is expected in 
LG today in a press release announced their tie-up with Youtube to develop a mobile phone, which can fully utilize the video service. According to LG via the proposed phone users will be able to upload, view and share video clips or user-created content (UCC) online without a PC. Sounds pretty neat and looks like LG is heading in the right direction.
Starting Monday you’ll be able to a few new things with your 
It wasn’t too long ago when YouTube was only available for Verizon users. Now if you’re rocking a pretty substantial data plan on your handset then you too can watch videos of skateboarding dogs and other uncanny mishaps caught on tape. Helio has decided to cash in on YouTube being free for everyone by coming up with a way to charge for it. Helio users can pay $5.99 a month and score access to a “Video Virus”
Looks like YouTube is indeed headed to the iPhone, as Apple 
Canada