YouTube Roll Out Their New Mobile Website….Better Than The iPhone App

Topic: Audio & Video, General, Internet & Online by at Thursday, July 8th, 2010

YouTube have just rolled out a new version of their mobile site. You can find it at m.youtube.com and it features what is definitely a better interface and higher quality video playback than what is available on the native iPhone YouTube app.

YouTube Mobile Video

In what maybe seen as a bit of an “in-your-face” from Google , the iPhone app lacks a lot of features that are now available on this new mobile version, plus the new site actively prompts you to to add it to your iPhone homescreen.  The mobile app is available on both iOS and Android platforms and has support for HTML5.

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Features that are now available to mobile users, that aren’t accessible on the native app include auto-suggest search results and playlist creation. More importantly, though, web apps can iteratively upgrade in small doses at any time, so YouTube’s main access point (the site) remains universal across devices and consistent with the desktop site.

The new YouTube mobile site is being pushed on their servers so you should to be able to access it now, but if not you won’t have to wait long.  Give it a try and tell us what you think, is it better than the native iPhone app?

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