iPhone can handle Google Video as well

iPhone users out there are all pretty well familiar with what sort of content they can view on YouTube at the moment: moonwalking instructional videos are a go, obscure bluegrass fingerpicking tutorials (thanks, Dad) are not. Well, now you've got another option for viewing pointless videos, since it turns out the iPhone can support the iPod/PSP video download option over at Google Video from right within Safari. Not all videos include a download option, and we tried a similar option over at Gametrailers.com to no avail, but who needs alternatives when you can watch sneezing panda eternally? Check out the QuickTime player after the break.

[Thanks, Canek]

[Lev M. @ Jul 2nd 2007 2:50AM]

Heh, just an interesting iPhone related story, I went to the apple store on 5th Avenue in the city, and played around with the phone. I enjoyed its sleek design and using it, (not such a fan of the keyboard, but i think one could get used to it). To see if it was activated, I called my own cell phone, and lo and behold it was!! However for the past 5 hours, I've been getting phone calls from the iPhone (random people testing it out). Stupid me, forgot to delete my number. :\

[Rob @ Jul 2nd 2007 2:54AM]

I believe the correct Internet term is: PWNED

[rip @ Jul 2nd 2007 3:10AM]

lmao.

[paul @ Jul 2nd 2007 3:30AM]

hilarious! (and also a rare iPhone post, not a fan boi or hater, and some genuine humor to boot!).

[Jeremy Sjodin @ Jul 2nd 2007 1:52PM]

I tried to send a note to my email address when I was playing with the iPhone friday, and it didn't work. Something was wrong with the one I was using. It wouldn't even go on the internet. I think it didn't like the WiFi network there at the store. So far no one has tried to email me from that iPhone (I'm assuming my email is saved in the phone like your phone number was). My mom was scared people would start sending me stuff. Hehehe, mom's are funny.

[John Doe @ Jul 2nd 2007 3:00AM]

cmon engadget

enough with this iphone bullshit

[andrew harrison @ Jul 2nd 2007 3:23AM]

cmon Joe

enough with the complaining bullshit

[RDM @ Jul 2nd 2007 6:46AM]

John Doe

So you're sick of the iPhone?

Let me cure you: http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1079/661285894_00172cfbb9_o.jpg

[azz0r @ Jul 2nd 2007 4:02AM]

cmon, how much more do we need! SHUT UP ABOUT IT.

Please make an iphonefanboy site or something.

[ELQ @ Jul 2nd 2007 4:02AM]

Revver.com has a quicktime download link for every video, which means that Revver should work on the iPhone too.

[Greg Combs @ Jul 2nd 2007 1:06PM]

They did, dingus ... you don't have to read iPhone news if you don't want to ... they post a "how-to" on getting an iPhone free feed every other day.

[RDM @ Jul 2nd 2007 6:54AM]

The comment above is for azz0r...

[Daniel @ Jul 2nd 2007 4:30AM]

Aw that's great! Thanks engadget! (I'm excited because for some reason I was gonna be really stubborn and NOT just look it up on my computer, but I really wanted to watch the "Tell me baby" music video (by red hot chili peppers) and it wasn't coded for iPhone by youtube yet. so again, thanks!

and to you haters, take a chill pill. its the weekend after the iPhone launch, did you expect anything other than iPhone posts? what would be posted if not for iPhone stuff? not a lot happens over the weekends you know...

[michael @ Jul 2nd 2007 4:42AM]

I just have to wonder, is there anything worth going on Google Video, that YouTube doesn't have?

[Xavier Gill @ Jul 2nd 2007 5:40AM]

Only 10,000 YouTube videos are available on the iPhone at the moment. To put that in perspective 64,000 new videos are added to Youtube every day.

[Argot @ Jul 2nd 2007 6:49AM]

"Not all videos include a download option".

How many? 1% 2% what?

[al @ Jul 2nd 2007 5:30AM]

It's a shame that iPhone's Bluetooth implementation seems to be 'crippled' so as only to allow handsfree and none of the other cool stuff Bluetooth does on just about every other [non-Verizon] handset today - printing, stereo audio, file transfer &c.

If you feel the same way, please sign the petition:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/iphone-obex

[Homeboy @ Jul 2nd 2007 6:45AM]

Hey Engadget!!!
When do we get to see a full iPhone ipod-function walk thorugh. I'm curious to know if the iPhone an replace an iPod. Is there is shuffle function, can you browser by song or composer? But most importantly can you create playlists on the go, can you save them???????????

[Douglas Brace @ Jul 2nd 2007 7:43AM]

http://www.engadget.com/2007/06/30/hd-video-iphone-interface-complete-walkthrough/

Engadget posted this video yesterday. It shows you the majority of the features that the iPhone is capable of doing.

http://manuals.info.apple.com%2Fen%2FiPhone_User_Guide.pdf&t=1183159226

The link above takes you to the iPhone manual which is can be downloaded as a PDF from Apple.com.

[Douglas Brace @ Jul 2nd 2007 7:45AM]

http://manuals.info.apple.com/en/iPhone_User_Guide.pdf

Sorry the iPhone manual link was bad. This one should work.

[Eric @ Jul 2nd 2007 9:53AM]

Where does it save to when you download it? Does it go into the iPod?

[Greg Combs @ Jul 2nd 2007 1:07PM]

I haven't tried the Google video yet, anyone else seeing this as valid?

[Tyme @ Jul 2nd 2007 3:21PM]

Just to clear it up for everyone, It doesn't download the video. Google videos wont play on the safari in iphone so when you click to download it in ipod format it starts playing full screen on the iphone. Its like the you tube on the iphone. no downloads, just streaming.

[MacBookOwner @ Jul 2nd 2007 4:34PM]

On Apple's Trailers site, you get redirected to an iPhone specific trailer, that streams full screen with the iPhone's native controls (as opposed to the web based trailer you see on a regular computer)..are you saying that Google Videos is doing the same thing?

[djenigma @ Jul 4th 2007 4:12AM]

yeah, you can actually access pretty much anything through safari that quicktime can process (including mp3 files). just point safari to a quicktime-compatible url, and chances are, it'll play. :)

(wish you could download for future enjoyment, but for right now, it seems to be streaming-only...)