YouTube revamps mobile offering for Symbian and WinMo phones

While not nearly as sexy as YouTube on the iPhone, Symbian and Windows Mobile users have reason to celebrate with a new version of the YouTube's mobile application (download and review). The company boasts that it's 90 percent faster than the previous version in terms of how quickly it starts up, pulls up search results, and when a video begins to play. It also detects what connection you're on and will serve up a quality that will stream in the fastest.

YouTube 2.2 plays videos in landscape and portrait modes on the Samsung Omnia.

In the demo video below, both the application and the selected video begin to play around a second after they're launched. That's a whole lot faster than the iPhone, especially the launch time, which should make clicking on YouTube links in e-mails and while browsing a less painful experience. While YouTube for Mobile is available globally, it's only localized for Australia, Ireland, N.Z., UK, and the US. Regardless, Nokia N95 owners should be pleased:

[gman1290]

Good! Should be pretty useful.

[rye-bob]

sounds like it will be intresting

[B1gC72]

cool. i've been using Kinoma FreePlay recently on my Treo for on the go YouTube viewing but i will certainly try this out later on today. Kinoma is great with it's slick animations and fast playback but sometimes it won't play stuff cause i use the free version. you never know when you will need to show somebody a YouTube video ;-).

[Eludium-Q36]

"While not nearly as sexy as Youtube on the iPhn..." Josh, you're such a shill.