Unofficial effort yields mobile Google Video
By Chris Ziegler 
posted Oct 27th 2006 5:49PM
posted Oct 27th 2006 5:49PM
Google has managed to show a good deal of love toward the mobile community as of late, culminating recently with the (more dubious) arrival of mobile AdWords. It seems a bit odd, then, that they've completely overlooked Google Video in the process. Scott Robbin, who fashioned his own solution to the problem, puts it best: "How many times have you been sitting on the train, with nothing to do, and you thought to yourself, 'Boy, I'd really like to be watching a video about pickles,' only to realize that you have none on your person? If you're like me, then the answer is plenty." According to Scott's site, the rig works on any phone with an XHTML-compliant browser that has (or can get hold of) an AVI / MP4 player; you just surf on over to a page he's set up and search for video as you normally would and links provide access to the videos themselves. Hey Google, how does it feel to get shown up by one motivated fella who likes his video on the road?[Via Crave]
And the link to his site is...?
Oh my the site is ____SLOW___ !!!
Well, what Scottpoints out as requiremetns are the very reason why it is so hard to do over-the-top videos on mobile. It is not that Google, Yahoo, or AOL haven't thought of this, it is because the current phones do not have the standardization and apps ubiquitously available. This is also the reason why only the Carriers can offer this at the moment. I expect this will get fixed eventually as the phones get smarter and network speeds faster. But at least in the US, util the ecosystem changes, we are years off duplicating the desktop on mobile for videos.