emTube – a better YouTube player for S60

Previously on PocketPicks.. we reviewed the S60 YouTube viewer YTPlayer. It was pretty good, but required Flash Lite 3 and was really only a beta version that the developer is no longer working on.

emTube seems much more like the real deal. It is written in Nokia’s development language du jour Open C, which lets it access the phone hardware directly and run much faster than a Flash app.

Unlike many other mobile YouTube players, emTube actually plays YouTube movies directly, rather than converting them to a new format. The app allows you to download a copy of a movie to a memory card for offline playing and will also play other flash movies stored on your phone.

As well as the usual search and favourites facilities, a nice touch is the support for the Nokia N95’s accelerometer – just rotate the phone by 90 degrees and it will switch to landscape mode, iPhone style.

emTube is a free download, but the author is asking for donations if you are suitably impressed. Go on, it’s nearly Christmas..

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