With over 1 million purchases of Apple’s newest iPhone 3GS worldwide since it was first launched on Friday in several cities, it has significantly raised Google’s YouTube mobile uploads by 400 per cent, according to a report by the US tech giant. Dubbed as the fastest and most powerful iPhone ever, its latest addition of the impressive video feature has attracted users to film their videos using their phones and post them wirelessly on the world’s most popular video sharing platform. Besides shooting videos in high-quality VGA video in portrait or landscape, it even enables users to trim their footage by adjusting start and end point.
In the report, it states that uploads from mobile phones to YouTube have jumped 1,700% in the last six months, with great thanks to the iPhone. From this statistics, it shows that customers nowadays tend to purchase phones which are video-enabled especially those which allow them to upload videos to video sharing websites and social networking websites.
It takes just a minute to connect a YouTube account to Facebook, Twitter and Google Reader accounts. People can complete a simple, one-time connection on the upload page to allow all their friends and followers to get a real-time stream of their uploads to YouTube, which can be essential in this age of citizen reporting and ubiquitous sharing.
According to a Nielsen study, iPhone users are 10 times more likely to view video, five times more likely to surf the internet and nine times more likely to play games on their iPhone than average mobile users. Apple also revealed that six million customers downloaded the new iPhone 3.0 software in the first seven days since its release.
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