Helio says that the new service improves on the dominant mobile YouTube service to this point, which has been limited to a passive viewing experience without access to popular community and personalization features.  

The service is available for Helio Ocean users at no additional charge.  Helio says that besides running over a nationwide high-speed 3G network, the custom application is complete with integrated video capture and upload for near real-time sharing of experiences, GPS tagging of videos, personalization, and access to community features like rating and commenting. 

Helio members can browse and upload previously saved videos or record videos in the application and upload them directly to YouTube, sharing experiences in near real-time with friends, family and the YouTube community.  Uploaded videos can be given a title, description, tags, category and be set to public or private.  Only Helio allows members to also geo-tag video uploads from their mobile device. Using Ocean's built-in GPS capabilities, members can send GPS coordinates with their video to track where they were when everything went down.

In addition to the other new features, Helio says that its members can now record and upload video responses to clips directly from their handset, making real-time responses to videos possible without ever having to log in from a computer.

Helio was founded in 2005 and is headed by EarthLink founder Sky Dayton, and is a joint venture of EarthLink and South Korea’s SK Telecom. 

Helio – www.helio.com