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Back in 2006 YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley said at the OgilvyOne Digital Summit that YouTube would launch a service for mobile phones in 2007.

YouTube already have a mobile service to some extent: YouTube To Go launched in May 2006 and lets users upload clips from cellphones. That’s a pretty standard feature on video-sharing site.

What we are talking about here is a full fledge video playback site for mobile device. Be warn that YouTube Mobile is a data intensive application. YouTube highly recommend that you upgrade to an unlimited data plan with your mobile service provider to avoid additional charges before using it’s service intensivelly.

Obviously the video offered are rather small. The following is a screen capture of an actual video:

m.youtube.com use 3gp as it’s video codec which provide decent video quality at low bit rate.