YouTube Gets Faster, Higher-Def in Mobile Safari

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YouTube’s mobile website has just gotten a lot more iPhone-friendly, thanks to some hefty HTML5 optimization.

A new spartan, icon-driven dashboard now greets the YouTube visitor coming in through Mobile Safari, offering quick and easy access to subscriptions, playlists, favorites, your videos, search and settings. It’s all a lot more finger friendly.

When it comes to video viewing, you also now have a lot more options, including the ability to play a video in a higher-quality format, vote it up or down, write comments or view related videos.

The biggest change, though, is speed: videos load much quicker than the native YouTube player, as well as gaining higher-definition options for watching on the likes of the iPhone 4’s Retina Display.

If you want to check it out, just point Mobile Safari to youtube.com and check it out.

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