Spotted on Mashable Twitter channel, checked it and works fine! The m.youtube.com site has now gone live, providing easy browsing access to YouTube from mobile devices. The mobile homepage carries a warning message: “YouTube Mobile is a data intensive application. We highly recommend that you upgrade to an unlimited data plan with your mobile service provider to avoid additional charges.”
I haven’t tried the upload clips from my mobile phone option to YouTube by following these instructions for this simple reason: users need to upload videos from their mobile phones (or cellphones) to YouTube by sending an MMS message to an email address. Depending on your connection, this can take some time, even to upload short video clips, so be sure to check your dataplan first and/or your MMS pricings before to try this out to avoid surprises. BTW: to all PARENTS: whatch your teenage kids dataplans 
Below a short ‘collage’ I made of the browsing experience with example of Paris Hilton Diaries, videos in Real Player. Sorry for the bad picture quality, for one reason or another my mobile screenshot shortcuts don’t seem to work in my Nokia browser 
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Great find, Rudy, but is that an iPhone theme on your N95? For shame.
Yeah Ricky… however the Safari browser didn’t quite work yet on the N95
Rudy,
Just tried it, works fine on the N93 as well. Just wished YouTube would have all of their videos on the mobile site and not just selected stuff. Another cool feature for the future would be to have browser type detection. So when receiving a link to Youtube via eMail on the mobile phone it’s automatically downscaled to the mobile version. A good start, and I am sure there’s more to come.
Cheers,
Martin
Oooooh, Martin, good call. Personally, I don’t think the website is useful, as I never just sit and browse. However, detection through Google Reader (which is actually a possibility) or through email on the device would be AWESOME, as that’s where I view most of my ‘net videos.
When playing any video on my Windows mobile smartphone, Windows Media Player comes up with an unknown error. Looks like YouTube needs to do some more testing.
Does not work on Windows Mobile 5.
dang got an sms from YouTube whilst in Paris and with my great vodafone account I got a huge bill watching it on my P990i – totally off the hook – mobile YouTube! Now this is the turning point when the suits will take notice about mobile!
Check out http://m.vtap.com for mobile video. vTap’s index includes youtube, google video, dailymotion, metacafe, myspace and a ton of other video sites. I’ve written more about it at http://blog.prashanthellina.com/2007/11/12/mvtapcom-vtap-for-any-device-with-a-browser/