Written by PatrickJ on Wednesday, September 19, 2007

vTap Rocks for Fast Mobile Video Searching & Playing

Have you tried out vTap yet? It is a very cool program from Veveo for quickly searching for AND playing video on your mobile device.

I just got a chance to play with this on my 8525, and it’s got lots of nice features:

Very quick search for video clips (or Wikipedia entries) – starts searching as soon as you start typing and returns good, relevant results
Plays video clips once you find them, with a nice little player of its own – which you can swap into the background, set its zoom level, go full screen etc.
Today screen plugin
Show Past Queries, History, and Bookmarks options with one tap on right Soft Key
Nice range of options and makes good use of Soft Keys for options and controls
Over-the-Air .cab file install for Windows Mobile 5 / 6 Smartphone and Pocket PC devices

Some more screencaps after the break …

If you haven’t searched for anything, you can just glance through current, popular video clips.

Results when searching for Top Gear clips.

A look at some of the Soft Key menu options.

Also tried this out quickly on the iPhone – no program install of course, just browsed to the main vTap URL – it works well and uses the iPhone’s in-built player.

vTap really looks like it could become a must-have app for video search and playback on mobiles. Check it out at:

http://vtap.com