Nokia E71

Though Google has its own application for YouTube. To truly experience the YouTube website on your mobile I would suggest Mobitubia. Mobitubia is Flash Video (FLV) Player and Full-Function YouTube portal application with real-time decoding for Series 60 3rd Edition devices.

Some of the key features of the software are

• Awesome interface like that of a carousal which has been made popular by Apple.
• View Offline FLV file (.flv file in device)
• View Online FLV file (access via http://...)
• Full-Functions YouTube
• Watch Recently Featured Videos on YouTube
• View Popular Clips of the Day, of the Week, of the Month and Overall
• Search For Videos On YouTube
• View by YouTube ID
• See YouTube Videos embedded on third party websites
• Lot of Customization Options like Status Bar Visibility and Max Frame Skip

 

Please Note

The latest version available to the public is Mobitubia v1.80 build 4. This version only plays videos having a certain codec (Sorenson-H263 codec (Flash 7) and it should not have a resolution of more than 320x240 pixels. This is a major turn off. When I tried Mobitubia I could not play any of the popular clips and a error is retuned which reads “File not supported”. However, there is good news as Sittiphol Phanvilai (the developer of Mobitubia) has released a new version - v1.85 build 9 for donors only. The new version will be available to the public soon as per the post here.

The experience of seeing the videos with Mobitubia is very nice (the ones which I could play) and it came as no surprise when I found that Mobitubia had won the Grand Prize in Forum Nokia Open C Challenge.

In the end my advise to the average user of E71 would be to either download the new version - v1.85 build 9 by donating some money or to wait for the public release about which you will definitely here on this blog. For those geeky ones if you do not want to spend the money download the new version and you would find the experience good at least for those clips which Mobitubia can play back.