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About 1/2 year ago; it was not easy to play YouTube videos on our S60 devices. Now we have several client applications available; some of them even even support saving the video to our device.

I am going to discuss are three YouTube applications that I think are the best. All of them works have common features, such as:

• play video in full screen,
• search videos,
  list popular videos,
  find related videos.

emTube - The Best

• In my opinion, emTube is the best YouTube client so far.
  It uses standard S60 user interface.
  You can save the videos to your devices.
  It supports accelerometer on N95 and N82. When you rotate your device, the video is also rotated.

Click here to download emTube

MobiTubia - The Champion

• MobiTubia is the winner of OpenC competition that was held by Nokia last year.
• It has similar interface to Nokia’s Video Center. It runs mostly in landscape mode.
• Sometimes, I have a problem with the sound (skipped sound) -> may be only me?

Click here to download MobiTubia

YouTube Mobile - The Official

• This is the official client application provided by Google.
• It is a Java application; so you can expect a slow performance.
• It is integrated with your YouTube account; so you can upload your videos.
• I have a little bit a problem with this application. Sometimes, it is trying to connect to data connection (via cellular network) although I have explicitly chosen WiFi connection.

To download YouTube Mobile, point your web browser to http://m.youtube.com

Bonus Links

•  Featured Freeware - emTube

Twango, who has just been acquired by Nokia last year, now becomes Share for Ovi. Here is the announcement from Twango’s blog.

First, we are now part of Nokia?s new service brand, “Ovi”. As of Today, the Twango brand will be a fond memory. We are now Share on Ovi.

For those who don’t know about Share for Ovi (twango), it is media sharing service; similar to flickr. You can upload pictures (as well as video) and then share them with your friends. Personally, I like the user interface of Share for Ovi. It is very clean and easy to navigate. It has a great potential. And by the way, they have a mobile version of their site too - http://mobile.twango.com. Point your camera to the barcode below (note that the URL may change in the future).

The current service is still beta. As such, there are still some important features missing. For example, the integration with the device is not seamless because lack of mobile client (this should be coming soon). The GPS coordinate embedded in the pictures, for example using Nokia Location Tagger, is also not parsed properly yet.

How do we upload and share media using Share for Ovi?

• You can always use PC to upload your media files via http://www.twango.com (the URL may change in the future). You can also use Windows XP Web Publishing Wizard, which allows you to upload a large numbers of media files.
• How about mobile devices? Since there is no mobile client available yet; the only possibility is using email. Now you can use Nokia Online Share 3.0 to upload to Share on Ovi.
• A couple of months back, The PhoneBoy Blog has posted a trick to upload your media files via Nokia Lifeblog.
  Unfortunately, I was not able to use the trick (not sure why though)

Bonus Links

• We are now Share on Ovi! (Twango’s blog)
• Posting to Twango from Lifeblog or Online Share (PhoneBoy Blog)

Update (11-Feb-2008): Use Nokia Share Online to upload media files to Share on Ovi directly from your mobile device.

Finally, after being delayed several times, N-Gage First Access was released today. What does “First Access” mean? It is some kind like a beta version or pre-release version. Currently, N-Gage is officially compatible with Nokia N81 only.

Click here to download N-Gage First Access

The N-Gage package comes in a ZIP file. There are currently three trial games available, i.e.:

• Space Impact: Kappa Base
• System Rush: Evolution
• Hooked On: Creatures of the Deep

There will be some additional games later on, which you can download from within N-Gage application.

Should you have questions or comments, feel free to leave feedback at N-Gage Arena Forums.

Here are some screenshots from some the N-Gage games. If you want to capture screenshot from N-Gage games, please use Screenshot v3.01. Any previous versions won’t capture N-Games properly.

Space Impact: Kappa Base

System Rush: Evolution

Hooked On: Creatures of the Deep

Bonus Links

• N-Gage Launches - For Nseries Owners (Symbian Guru)
• N-Gage First Access Goes Live (AllAboutSymbian)
• Are You Ready for the N-Gage? N-Gage First Access Begins! (Symbian-Freak)