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The official YouTube application for Android has been updated and is now available as a standalone app in the Android Market, but only if you’re running 2.2 (a.k.a. Froyo). There are a ton of features, like portrait and landscape viewing, channel info, commenting, liking, sharing on Buzz, Facebook, and Twitter, in-page viewing (so you can cruise comments while watching), plus lots more.
The move as a separate app in the Market is similar to what Google has done with Search and Mail, namely so they can deploy updates to core apps without waiting on carriers to approve entire new builds of the OS. It’s a smart transition to make, but we really hope that this update will trickle down to the older versions of the OS before people start crying about fragmentation.
If you are by chance running a Froyo-capable smartphone, hit up the YouTube app download link below.
- Download for Android (Free) [Market Link]
[via Droid-Life]
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Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
