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Apple iPhone gets YouTube playback

Fans of the Cupertino California based company Apple have long awaited the famed iPhone for its promise of being the all-in-one gadget to own. With its ability to play music, watch videos and much more along with being a cellular phone, now anxious consumers can add one more feature to its healthy list.

Apple has announced that users of the iPhone will be able to stream video through Wi-Fi connectivity directly from YouTube. While YouTube has enjoyed great success for streaming videos to desktop users, there hasn't been much attention paid to mobile users. YouTube says they are now working on encoding a new format for their video streams to work seamlessly with cellular technology. Their hopes are that the new format will help aid in conserving battery life as well as keeping video quality up to the standards of the mobile user.



The Apple iPhone will be the first mobile device to receive YouTube's newly encoded content and is claimed to have some 10,000 video streams available when the iPhone launches on June 29th. YouTube also claims that new content will be added and available each week after the initial launch.

While the phone will use service from AT&T primarily, it will not get the benefit of the company's high speed cellular data links. In response, Apple claims that the YouTube content will operate fine and efficiently over the phone's short range Wi-Fi network connections.

Source:
Reuters

Written by: Dave Horvath @ 20 Jun 2007 7:40

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• 6 comments

• SilvaJDS

  Nice an other reason to buy the Iphone

  20.6.2007 10:54 #1

• cd-rw.org

  Actually YouTube ToGo is coming to a wide range of devices, but of course mentioning Apple in the same sentence makes it cool/hot/sexy:
  http://n95blog.com/youtube-mobile-coming-soon/

  20.6.2007 11:53 #2

• Kazi

  this is cool, i'm a fan of stage6 tho. The quality and speed just surpass youtube. The color scheme is cooler too!
  
  but def good news and something that should be expected from a $500 phone.

  20.6.2007 13:10 #3

• borhan9

  So basically its new features are wifi and youtube. They need to have more new additions to impress me :)

  21.6.2007 21:03 #4

• Unfocused

  $600 is still $600. Not worth it to me. Although this is progress towards a true all-in-one device.

  19.7.2007 21:05 #5

• borhan9

  Originally posted by Unfocused: $600 is still $600. Not worth it to me. Although this is progress towards a true all-in-one device.Mate the question is do we really need a device that can do everything for you.

  20.7.2007 00:59 #6