Get YouTube On Windows Mobile

Viewing YouTube content on your Windows Mobile device can be a troubling pastime – especially when your network provider has removed the dedicated software supplied by the phone manufacturer.

Thankfully, there are a number of solutions involving either browsers, third party applications or a combination of each, ranging from free to quite pricey.

I've listed here the best solutions for viewing the world of streaming content not just from YouTube but from other sites such as Google Video - so why not try out the Skyfire browser, Coreplayer, YouTubePlayer, Avot mV or TCPMP and bring the best in self broadcasting to your Windows Mobile device.

Skyfire is a marvellous new browser for Windows Mobile. Not only does it permit the user to view the BBC iPlayer and other online streaming, it reliably streams content from YouTube direct from the browser window.

Skyfire has recently become the browser of choice for many WIndows Mobile users, offering superb support for a number of websites that Internet Exporer Mobile and Opera Mobile simply cannot deal with at the moment - and YouTube is another of these.

With Skyfire, it really is as simple as either clicking the homepage link or typing in the YouTube.com url and then searching for the content of your choice.

Download from Skyfire.com (584kb)

If you’re using this superb (although a little pricey, coming in at a little under $30) Windows Mobile universal media player, then you should find that YouTube content is well catered for. It’s simply a case of clicking on the YouTube link on the main Coreplayer screen and entering the YouTube screen.

Searching for content and viewing it is simple, however the search results only return videos optimised for mobile viewing. Thanks to the Menu > Open URL function however, if you know the URL of the video you’re looking for then this can be opened. (Note that Menu > Open URL will only work for YouTube videos while in the YouTube screen.

The 1.6MB download is available from coreplayer.com.