Youtube Sucks on Symbian S60 5th Edition

The title says it all. This isn't the first time S60 5th has let me down. To be honest, I barely use any applications on the phone because they either, well.. suck, or take up too much RAM. Yes, my 5800 is running the latest firmware, and yes, I have hard reseted before.. And finally, yes, I know how to use a Nokia/S60 device.

Anyway, the video I mentioned can be found here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRpxydp2QEw

It features:
WongFu
http://youtube.com/wongfuproductions

Kevin Wu
http://youtube.com/kevjumba

Christine Gambito
http://youtube.com/happyslip

David Choi
http://youtube.com/davidchoimusic

Other Cool Youtubers:
MyChonny
http://youtube.com/mychonny

Philip DeFranco
http://youtube.com/sxephil

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Youtube
• sucks
• S60
• 5th
• Nokia
• 5800
• 5800XM
• kevjumba
• happyslip
• wongfu
• mychonny
• sxephil
• tehk
• tehkseven
• tehk7

[JarrodFactor]

I actually watched your video on my 5800 using the normal browser. Why would you try viewing the desktop version on your phone? Youtube has a good mobile version of the site, which uses flash, complete with cuter (and smaller) versions of the standard YouTube player.

There is an optimisation wizard on the front page that helps YouTube generate the right encoding for your device.

[tehkseven]

Youtube mobile on the 5800 and N97 (newest 2.0 firmware) are still lacking, in my opinion of course.

The quality is quite poor and it is laggy most of the time.

Thanks for the tip on the optimization wizard. I'm sure I set it right, but I'll check again :)

[vyomashar]

Agreed it Doesn't look good on S60v3 too, I prefer going online thru a PC.

[tehkseven]

Yup. PC definitely provides the best Youtube experience, hahaha

[tehkseven]

:(. I haven't tried the new Skyfire.. The previous one looked okay, but like you said.. not great.

[simonruane]

I totally agree.

I`ve got the 5800 and the N97.

The N97 even sucks more than the 5800.

[Tahvo619]

@simonruane The same youtube sucks on Symbia 3

[happystar8081]

@raonipaes unfortunately NOKIA are complete dick heads!! and were so SLOW to react

to proper apps and better software hence SYMBIAN OS they were bound to lose the smart phone market!!

NOKIAS DEAD LONG LIVE REAL QUALITY SMART PHONES :) ;)

[raonipaes]

unfortunately symbian is dead... the lack of resources and compatibility made Android and the Mobile Apple OS get to the top.

[Baranecosable]

this app sucks.. it cannot play when it is minimized and also video quality is poor comparing other apps for playng youtube video

[ReaSzon]

S60v5 sucks hardcore all the ways ...

[youtindia]

i do think that where is the sidebar in Youtube that everyone talks of??

[isokessu]

That phone haven't never cost 400 dollars.. it used to cost over 300 and now maybe over 100 if they even sell it anymore, but yeah the youtube app really sucks, desktop version doesn't even load videos anymore because flash is too old and mobile site is ok but you can't log in to your YouTube user in m.youtube.com. I blame YouTube from that. Btw YouTube used to work just fine with 5800 before google messed it up, google nerds don't just want people to watch YouTube with Symbian

[microsoft637]

i downloaded youtube app for s60 v5 and its much much better than watching with default browser

[jaychou1994]

Try reading those comments at those N8 videos, I kept laughing at those stupid Symbian/Nokia fanboys that kept saying about how symbian is better than android and iOS, and that the 600mhz processor is enough to power symbian bla bla bla. Symbian would fail once again, that for sure, look at the constantly dropping market share.

[Bara365]

I just got an N97 mini as well the video quality is good but when it comes to youtube your right its terrible laggy and over 3G its just rediculous might as well download the video on your computer and put it on your phone to see the good quality.