How to watch YouTube videos on your Nokia S60 3rd Edition FP 1 & FP 2 phones with Flash Lite 3 support

Many people have faced the problem of accessing YouTube.com through the phone browsers, as clicking on a video in m.youtube.com website leads to RealPlayer popping up, which in turn gives connection errors, sometimes loading, but never actually working. Even after setting up the Default Access Point in the Settings> Streaming and keeping the Proxy “OFF” doesn’t help.

Personally I don’t use m.youtube.com that’s why I don’t have the settings, but some readers wanted to try, so as soon as I figure out how to fix the connection errors, I’ll share the solution with you guys.

The reason why RealPlayer opens up, is because m.youtube.com website is optimised for Mobile viewing, so it has .3gp format videos, not flash.

Now the thing which most non-techie people don’t know or fail to notice is that our lovely Symbian S60 3rd Edition Feature Pack 1 & Feature Pack 2 devices (with latest firmware updates) have Flash Lite 3.0 which enables simple desktop Flash 8 content to be viewed through the mobile browser

“…Flash Lite 3.0 enabled phones support Flash Lite content as standalone, screensaver and in the browser. This means that you can see YouTube flash videos directly in the S60 Web browser…”

To view flash videos in the S60 Web Browser, you’ll first need to check if you have Flash Lite 3.0 support or not. This can be done by checking the “About Application” of your phone’s “Flash Player“:
Menu> Applications> Media Folder> Flash Player> Options> About Application

Now that you have checked that you have a Flash Lite 3.0 enabled phone, you don’t need to use YouTube’s Mobile Website anymore. Simply log into YouTube’s Original Desktop website and all the videos will work easily.

Go to your S60 Web Browser and check the settings:
S60 Web Browser> Options> Settings> General

S60 Web Browser> Options> Settings> Page

S60 Web Browser> Options> Settings> Privacy

1) Open the www.YouTube.com on the Built-In S60 Web browser.

2) On opening, you will see that the browser has led to
the Mobile Website “m.youtube.com“. Scroll down to the end of the webpage,
and click on ” VIEW DESKTOP VERSION“

3) Here is a Screenshot of the List of videos when
I searched for Nokia E71 on YouTube

4) I selected & opened the “Nokia E71 Smartphone
Review” to view

4) That’s it. Now enjoy the videos in your Symbian S60 browser

5) Double-clicking will open the YouTube video in Full-screen

As an alternate method to view YouTube videos, I mostly use the MobiTubia application on my Nokia N82.

You can find MobiTubia on it’s Official Website:
www.mobitubia.com