An announcement by South Korea Electronic firm LG, says they are about to release a YouTube enabled phone in Europe by the end of this year. This will allow users to capture video directly on their phone and upload it to YouTube. They have got some kind of deal going on with Google (YouTube’s parent company) to make it all official. The thing is, the iPhone has YouTube functionality too, but from what I have heard it is limited. Well, first off the iPhone doesn’t record video, yet. This is good reason to wait for the 2nd or 3rd generation models and I am surprised that this has been omitted. Secondly, the YouTube clips accessible by the iPhone are specially transcoded for it and are few in numbers at the moment. This kind of defeats the purpose really.

Read more