One of the things we like most about the Nokia Lumia 800 and its Windows Phone 7.5 OS is that it packs built-in Flash video support, for enjoying all that YouTube has to offer. Well now you can even download YouTube videos right to your phone with the YouTube Download app. We’ve been giving it a try.
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A key factor in YouTube’s success is its great usability, so it’s essential that a third-party YouTube app proves just as intuitive to use. Thankfully, YouTube Download is completely fool proof (it must be if we can use it), so it’s never been so easy to download your favourite videos to your Nokia Lumia 800.
The app comes in a relatively small 7MB file and can be downloaded and installed quickly on your Nokia Windows Phone. Once it’s installed on your handset, it walks you through a handy three-step tutorial to explain how to search for videos, download them to your phone and use the app’s menus.
Finding a video to download to your Nokia Lumia 800 is incredibly easy in YouTube Download. All you need to do is type into the large onscreen search box and then hit Search and the app quickly searches YouTube to bring you a comprehensive vertically scrollable list of all the results that it finds onsite.
When you find a video you want to watch, you just tap on it and you’re given the option to either download the video or stream it immediately on your Nokia phone. When you tap either option, YouTube Download checks which video formats are available and you can then choose the preferred format you want.
All you have to do then is tap the format that you want and the app starts to download or stream the video right away. Completed downloads are then automatically moved to the app’s My Videos section, where you can view them at your leisure whenever you like on your Nokia Lumia 800 phone.
To streamline the interface, you can hide the main tools panel – located at the bottom of the screen – by tapping the Hide button anytime you like. To restore it, you just need to shake your phone in your hand and menu pops back up, making it easy to access app’s main settings, without touching the screen.
And if you want finer control over the app’s default settings, you can easily customise them as well. You can set the app to always choose a download format for you and you can even set your preferred format so that the app always picks the one you want for even faster downloads to your Nokia smartphone.
And that’s pretty much all there is to it. Just like YouTube itself, the YouTube Download app puts your favourite videos within easy reach and makes it incredibly simple to find and download videos to watch on the move. And with full-length movies now available on YouTube, this app has never been more essential.
YouTube Download for the Nokia Lumia 800 Windows Phone is available now from the Windows Phone Marketplace for just £0.79. And if you want to try it for free, you can download the trial version and upgrade later if you like it.
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YouTube Download is a fantastic app for YouTube fans and a great addition to the Nokia Lumia 800, so why not give it a try on your Windows Phone and let us know what you think about it in the Comments below?