YouTube App: Windows Mobile Users Get another Great Time Wasting Tool
Earlier this week I was stuck on the Metro rail due to a train malfunction one stop away from my destination. After ten minutes of just sitting there looking at the ground trying not to make eye contract with strangers, I decided to pull out the “old spare time killer”, my cell phone. Currently I am caring around the HTC mogul my provider is Sprint and I go with the unlimited data plan, it doesn’t make much since to me to have a smart phone and have to worry about data charges. But anyway the mobile version of the online video site, YouTube has never worked on my phone; however I hadn’t tried for awhile so I returned to the site via my Windows Mobile phone to check to see if YouTube mobile had been updated. I had no luck viewing YouTube videos from its mobile website, but I was pleasantly surprised with a download link for a YouTube application for Windows Mobile users.
I really enjoyed my first experience with the Windows Mobile YouTube app. The home screen is very basic giving you the following options, search videos, view top rated, most viewed, and/or most recent. If your Windows Mobile phone has a slider QWERTY keyboard with vertical and horizontal screen views, the YouTube mobile app automatically changes the screen to horizontal view when the desired video is clicked. Watching videos on a delayed train never got so good, the streaming is clear with a little buffering. Navigation for the app is nice and simple, a horizontal slider is provided to browse the videos with your touch screen or directional pad. The app is stripped now allowing you to view related videos or more videos from a specific user, but on the plus side there are no advertisements either. The only major concern I have with the YouTube Windows Mobile app is, if you do not close the applications close button and just open another program or return to Windows home screen, it makes the vertical to horizontal screen display switching volatile. Sometimes I could be looking at the phone keypad and the screen would just turn from vertical to horizontal all over sudden. Closing the YouTube app using its menu seems to solve this problem. All in all this is a nice application to add in addition to your games and other time wasting tools. Enjoy!