YouTube Now Interactive on Helio Ocean Mobile

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By Isabel Goncalves
12 December 2007 @ 12:17 pm ET

NEW YORK - Helio, a South Korean mobile communications firm, launched on Wednesday the first interactive YouTube application for cell phones on its Helio Ocean phone.

The feature offers users a similar interface to the popular online version which current cell phones don't offer, including the iPhone and Blackberry.

The current version of YouTube's mobile site does not allow users to "log in" and as a result key features like rating, commenting , access to personal videos or uploading videos, are not available leaving users only able to view the video with no interaction.

"Helio has taken the mobile YouTube experience to the next level," said Chad Hurley, CEO and co-founder, YouTube said in a statement. "This innovative application offers people even more customization and provides them with instant access to interact with the YouTube community whenever and wherever they go."

The feature is available to all Helio Ocean users for free on YouTube.com and also allows users to geotag their video as they upload it, allowing others to see where the video was made.

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Kurt Klein

Jan 1, 2008 8:46pm

How about YouTube on standard mobile phones? Like most people, I use a regular cell phone with cheap unlimited data plan. The best mobile-friendly portal for us is http://a1r.mobi (for guys) and http://a1r.mobi/me (for women). Both offer e-mail from HotMail, gMail, AOL, Yahoo! SMS and a texting dictionary. Plus: YouTube, news, entertainment, live chat, forums, e-mail, and 411. From either site, you can easily get to everything you want - fast and everything is mobile-friendly. Most people with low-end web-enabled cell phones don’t even use the feature because they don’t know how or think it may be too expensive (check your carrier plans). The main reason I didn’t use my mobile phone at first was it was too much of a pain to find truly mobile-friendly sites. Most sites took too long to load, looked terrible when they did load, and often just froze. http://a1r.mobi is much better.

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