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Nokia plans to enhance mobile entertainment by bring YouTube videos into Nokia’s NSeries multimedia handsets. The company recently reached into an agreement with Google to do the same. YouTube will broadcast videos in AVC video format on their upcoming mobile video site; these videos will be viewable through Nokia’s web browser, like we see them on our computer’s browser.

YouTube Cofounder - Steven Chen said “We are thrilled to be giving users easy access to entertaining YouTube videos anytime and anywhere. By partnering with an industry leader like Nokia, we’re able to bring YouTube videos to mobile phone users worldwide”

Nokia has also built an application called “Nokia Video Center” to consume YouTube’s Video RSS feeds. Nokia Video Center will come pre-installed in the Nokia N95 handset, followed by other handsets in the series. Nokia will also provide a downloadable version of the application for compatible S60 devices.

YouTube’s mobile site supports progressive downloading, so that you could enjoy the video instantly, even when the download is still in progress. Symbian Freak has a video demonstration of YouTube – Nokia integration:



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  1. It still looks a little bit slow… and with being only able to access a few preselected videos, I don’t know how useful the service is going to be straight out the gate.

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