Nokia releases YouTube Upload app for Lumia phones

YouTube and Windows Phone’s relationship has gone through its fair share of ups and downs – more downs than ups. The saga is seeing yet another chapter added to it as Nokia has released a new application designed specifically to help Lumia users post their videos onto YouTube.

The app, simply called YouTube Upload has been designed to share your videos quickly and easily on your YouTube accounts. The application has been designed by Nokia, limiting its usage to only Lumia phones. The scope gets narrowed down further as reports have emerged that the app is not useable on all Windows Phone 8 running Lumia handsets but only the company’s newest Nokia Lumia 1020 for now.

Only for Lumia phones

You can select videos in the photos app and share or upload them with the app. You can also choose to first trim your video using the Nokia Video Trimmer using the share option.

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Microsoft and YouTube have shared a tumultuous relationship over the video-sharing service’s app on the Windows Phone platform since a while now. Earlier this year, Microsoft had hurled allegations at Google that the company was hindering the development of a full-fledged YouTube app for its mobile platform.

After a bunch of squabbles, Microsoft released its own, natively built YouTube application that Google saw red over. The Internet giant served Microsoft with a cease-and-desist letter over non-compliance with the service’s terms and conditions. Microsoft updated the app and the two companies finally agreed to work together to build an app as a joint effort.

The love-hate relationship is probably going to drag on for a lot longer than Windows Phone users might like, but if you own a Nokia Lumia handset, you can download the YouTube Upload app from the Windows Phone Store and start publishing videos.