Perhaps with an eye on the people who were too bad to get an iPhone from Santa and received a new S60 phone instead, the good folk of S60.com have released some new videos via their YouTube channel that show S60 noobs how to use their new toys.
The videos cover basics like how to browse the web from your phone as well as more advanced topics such as installing new apps, how to copy and paste and how to configure soft keys and active standby.
Each video is only a few minutes long and everything is explained with reference to an actual phone, so you can see exactly how to perform the task. The only slight oddity is the voice-over, which a sounds a bit like a text-to-speech program, but probably isn’t.
Here is how to use your S60 to multi-task several apps at once:
Vodafone has started letting its customers upload content to Facebook, MySpace, Bebo and YouTube – direct from their handset.
The operator, finally facing up to what its customers want to be able to do on their handsets, has opened up its service so that users can upload pictures and videos to their online networking site.
To do this, users must click on My Communities on Vodafone Live! and download the app, choosing which of the four services they want to upload content for.
At the moment, only Nokia N95 8GB and Sony Ericsson W910i users can do so, but expect this list of handsets to get bigger.
It’s the first time Vodafone customers (Or indeed almost any mobile users) can do this, so expect a rash of rival operators all announcing similar services in the coming months.
[Via Pocket Lint]
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..
Google’s mythical Android OS isn’t even out yet and already there are *warning, web 2.0 vernacular incoming* youtubers (eauch! It’s so clunky and exponential) spoofing it with viral videos. This one comes courtesy of Nalts who is a fairly prominent member of the YouTube community and is really quite amusing. The video was released just a couple of days after the official announcement of Android but we missed it (and you might have done too) so here it is.
Typical. You wait ages for YouTube to get round to making its video catalogue-mobile friendly, then enterprising developers go ahead and do it themselves.
Only last month we featured YouTube Pocket, letting Windows Mobile and Pocket PC users access YouTube’s entire library on their smartphones.
Now Symbian users can do so as well courtesy of software developer Samir. His YTPlayer is only at first beta stage but it already offers a full YouTube search and player facilities.
At the moment the app’s only a SWF file and needs Flash Lite 3 to work but at least it does work. You can see if for yourself here.
Update: And it’s not only independent developers now offering the full YouTube experience on mobiles.
In Korea, SK Telecom customers with Helio Ocean handsets can now experience the complete YouTube experience with all the features you’d expect from the website including video uploads and GPS Tagging.
Want YouTube on your phone but fed up with only have the (very) limited selection currently available for mobiles? With hours of video being uploaded every minute on YouTube you know it’s going to take them a lifetime to configure all of them for mobile phones.
Luckily some enterprising developers have managed create a streaming media player plug-in that’ll let you browse ALL YouTube videos and watch them on your smartphone.
The plug-in works by converting YouTube videos to play on Windows Media Player installed on Pocket PC and Windows Mobile-based smartphones.
To set it up you simply need to go to the YouTube Pocket website, download the YouTube player to your smartphone and you’re away.
The people behind YouTube Pocket have also developed other mobile services including a Gmail viewer and MySpace music player for mobile phones.
[Via Coolsmartphone.com]
The latest installment of the Pocket Picks iPhone review concerns the two most high-profile Web 2.0 apps on the handset: YouTube and Google Maps. They’re both the result of Apple palling up with Google, despite the latter having its own mobile ambitions with the Android platform.
YouTube first, then. It lets you browse the popular video-sharing site by Featured vids, Most Viewed, Top Rated, Most Recent, and using a Search function. In the case of Most Viewed, you can narrow it down to today, this week, or all-time depending on your preference. On the iPhone, you can see how YouTube is a good dip-in dip-out experience, in that you fire up the app, watch a few videos to kill time, then duck out again.
Choosing a video switches iPhone into widescreen mode, and the quality is pretty good (obviously, you’ll want to be using the iPhone’s wi-fi connection rather than EDGE). Once watched, you can bookmark them, share (this sends an email with the link in), and click straight through to a bunch of related vids. The only disappointment is there’s no way to read or post comments, or even ratings.
Continue reading ‘UK iPhone Review Part 5: YouTube and Google Maps’
If your Windows Mobile smartphone’s full of pictures, videos and music tracks, what are you going to do with them? How about turn them into your own short film complete with soundtrack, special effects and narration.
TrackAxMobile is the smartphone version of a PC program letting you take your content, put it together into a ‘video mix’ including videos, photos, text, effects, soundtrack and narration, even credits, which you can then share via YouTube, Flickr and other, similar sites. Or, if you’d prefer you can save it and email or MMS the video to your mates.
It’s incredibly easy to use and with the minimum of practice you could creating your own mobile masterpieces in a matter of minutes.
If it sounds interesting, there’s a seven-day evaluation version you can try from trackAx, or you can buy it for around £15.
Google’s entry into mobile has caused a certain amount of excitement. Now, just to stoke that excitement ever so slightly, Google’s released a video showing off its open-source Android platform.
Google’s Steve Horowitz starts out confirming that there’ll be no ‘GPhone’. Fair enough, but then he shows off Android on an unnamed device.
What immediately strikes you is that it looks very similar to the iPhone - for instance, on the large colour screen where you can scroll through menus with your finger.
What’s really exciting is the linking of applications. The example shown is accessing your contacts, then clicking on their address and going to their location on Google Maps.
You can also receive notifications of messages at the top of your screen, which can be expanded to see the whole message.
Browsing on a 3G network you get full internet pages, which can be zoomed out to see the whole page, and when accessing your history you can see the pages in your history as tiles to be scrolled through with your finger.
So far so exciting. If Google’s already done this (Mr Hotowitz says he’s had his device for six months now), just imagine what will be possible on the first devices when they appear late next year!
You can see Android for yourself here.
Bango, which specialises in mobile payment provision, has launched a one-touch access to mobile content from users’ social networking sites, or blogs.
The “Get On My Mobile” Bango Button is designed so anyone using a social website, media sharing site, forum or blog can make their content available to mobile phone users with one click.
The Bango service will automatically resize images for download to mobile phones, and can configure sites to fit on mobile screens - so you don’t have to.
It’s been designed for sites like Facebook, MySpace, YouTube, Flickr, Bebo, Friendster, LinkedIn, Blogger, Orkut and WordPress. It’s already been through Beta testing and is now being rolled out to the public.
To create their own ‘Get On My Mobile’ button, users simply have to insert a code generated by Bango next to the content they want to share from their site. When users click on the button, they will get a URL which they enter into their mobile’s browser. If you want to make money, you can charge for downloading this content.
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