Smart Phone Tip: Download YouTube Videos to Your Phones

As everyone loves YouTube, we upload, share our videos, and watch others randomly. And YouTube also likes everyone. For mobile phone users, we got YouTube Mobile for small screen, as well as YouTube XL for big screen. However, our phone users should know the YouTube official warning, that is, don’t waste your cellphone bandwidth on watching YouTube videos unless you got an unlimited plan from your carrier. Certainly not everyone gets that unlimited plan, and maybe not everyone’s cellphone supports watching YouTube Mobile. The right way here we go for those problems is downloading YouTube videos to get local copies of your favorite vids and transfer to your phones.

STEP 1: Download Your Favorite Videos from YouTube

This is not a new concept to use some tools to simply grab YouTube videos from Internet to your desktop. You just need a right one. Choose your poison according to your needs and patience level — if you do a lot of downloading it might be worth your while to check out the more full-featured apps.

Video Download Capture as YouTube Video Downloader

STEP 2: Convert YouTube Videos for Your Phone

Since the downloaded YouTube videos on your desktop are usually in FLV or MP4 video format, you can’t directly watch them on your iPhone, Android, Plam Pre, BlackBerry or Windows Mobile series phone. You need to know the video format your phone supports. Don’t worry, most recent cell phones can support 3GP or MP4 naturally. It’s recommended to convert YouTube videos with a video converter app from the phone manufacturer.

By the way, some full-featured YouTube download tools can also convert your YouTube videos to these video formats for your cellphones.

Full-Featured YouTube Downloader as Phone Video Converter

STEP 3: Transfer YouTube Videos to Your Phone

Plug in the data cable to connect your phone with the computer, and transfer the downloaded and converted YouTube videos to your phone now. If you don’t have the data cable as accessories for your cell phone, you may try IrDA or Bluetooth to exchange data and files between your phone and your computer.

Some phone manufacturers offer the official tool to transfer media to your phone, such as iTunes for iPhone, Desktop Manager for BlackBerry.

With this guide, I hope everything’s done as you want to watch your favorite YouTube videos offline on your favorite phone anywhere.