Noob Section: Mobile Browsing including YouTube Experience

With this new article of my “Noob Section” I want to show you how to enjoy mobile browsing without abandoning YouTube videos. This post is thought for most S60v3 devices apart from the N95 8GB which does already support Flash videos.

All other devices have a browser which is not compatible with Flash Lite 3 content. However, you can use the great YouTube client “MobiTubia” having a great feature called “Open Web Clip”. You can enter the address of any YouTube clip containing web page. “MobiTubia” shows you automatically all the clips which are embedded on this site and you can play them with the external YouTube client.

This feature makes it possible to view YouTube videos, although the built in browser doesn’t support Flash videos.

YouTube using MobiTubia:

I think everybody who browses often with the default Safari browser knows the symbol shown in the screenshot. It is always displayed instead of a Flash video which format isn’t support yet.
However, you have the possibility to use “MobiTubia” to play the video, in case it is a YouTube clip.

To use the “Open Web Clip” feature, you need the URL of the page containing the clip. The easiest way to find out the URL is to choose “Options” -> “Save as bookmark”. It’s not necessary to enter a name, because I suppose that you will delete the bookmark anyway after finding out the link.

To open the bookmarks, select “Options” -> “Bookmarks”.

The last saved bookmark should be the last one in the available bookmark list. So it’s the easiest way to press the “Up” key to select your just saved bookmark.

By choosing “Options” -> “Bookmarks” -> “Edit” and selecting the “Address” field, you can easily copy the link…

… by selecting “Options” -> “Copy”. Now you can delete the bookmark if you don’t need it for further operations.

Now you can minimise the Internet browser with a press on the “Menu” key. As I said, you need “MobiTubia” to play the video. If you still don’t have the application installed, you can download it here.

After that, launch “MobiTubia” and confirm the automatically selected “YouTube.com” submenu.

As I said, the “Open Web Clip” feature is ideal for our case. Scroll as far as the mentioned feature is selected and confirm.

Unfortunately, the current “MobiTubia” version doesn’t support to take screenshots, so the picture ahead looks a little bit strange.

Anyway, to paste the copied link, choose “Options” -> “Paste”.

After choosing “OK”, all the videos located on the website whose link you pasted should be displayed. Again I couldn’t take a screenshot.
Select the video you want to watch…

… and then it should play smoothly and in nice quality!

As you can see, this is a nice way to enjoy mobile surfing including Flash videos, although the S60 browser doesn’t support them. Maybe it looks expensive at first, but will be simple with some practise.

It still won’t work as well on some devices because “MobiTubia” has still some compatibility problems. However, on the widely spread N95 it should work perfectly!