The integrated YouTube browser is one of the many features that has made the iPhone such a huge hit among both the older and younger generations. Apple’s ability to integrate the latest and most hip technologies into a device that suits anyone from a professional to a student keen to browse Twitter while waiting for the bus is part of its marketing brilliance.

Using the YouTube Video Feature
When you open YouTube from the home screen, you’re presented with five options across the bottom of the screen, all of which are self-explanatory:

• Featured
• Most Viewed
• Bookmarks
• Search
• More

Like the iPod menu, you can click the edit button in the More section to customise the lit at the bottom and choose between the four categories above as well as Most Recent, Top Rated and History.

Watching
As soon as a video begins to play in the YouTube browser, the iPhone kicks into landscape mode. You’ll need to rotate the phone on its side to watch it. As the movie loads, a box containing onscreen controls is on the screen. The middle three controls include playback control, the left button allows you to bookmark the video and the right button lets you email the video to a friend.

The controls fade from the screen after a few seconds for a distraction-free picture but can be retrieved by simply tapping the screen. You can then pause, rewind and fast-forward the video, change the volume with the slider at the bottom or move to a particular point in the clip by using the slider at the top of the screen.

When the video completes, the iPhone automatically switches back to portrait mode and you can view more detailed information about the clip, see similar clips or access the bookmarking section.

Because each video is being streamed live from the web, they might occasionally freeze playing to load. To improve his, pause the video and allow the progress bar to load further before you resume.