By: Ben Robinson, IntoMobile Saturday, April 5th, 2008 at 7:13 AM
Now Dusan has mentioned vtap before (here), but Veveo has PR announcing what I assume must be the official launch of the service for UK users.
It is apparently a “new web video experience for mobile users all over the UK and Europe. For the first time video lovers will be able to search through over 150 million web videos via vtap, a unique mobile web video search service that allows consumers to quickly and easily search, view and save relevantweb videos from any source on the Internet on any imaginable topic, tailored to their individual preferences on their preferred device(s)”
The mobile site is m.vtap.com, in case you are interested – I visited it via my Mobile Network Operator’s (who shall remain nameless) APN, and despite an “all you can eat” internet package, streaming doesn’t work! 5 minutes later and some WLAN configuration, and I am pleased to report it works very nicely over WiFi. There looks to also be an option to download the 3GP videos as well as stream them, so readers who have the same MNO issue as me can at least get some video action! Certainly worth a look and a play
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