Qik is close to launching an iPhone app that will allow you to stream live video from your phone with a touch of the button. Video demo…
As you might imagine, this will be big. The challenge, of course, is how to organize all these streams into useful and entertaining experiences.
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very cool, and long awaited, but i wonder, why just iphone and not the blackberry. sure the iphone is cool, but the blackberry has way bigger footprint in the market. but, maybe that’s why?
I hear the iphone has to be jailbroken for this to work. Would you pay all that cash for the device, hack it, breach Apple’s terms and run the risk of them blacklisting the device just so you can stream video?
I have two devices, a BB Curve- which I already stream from with Next2Friends, my i-Phone is more for fun on the move.
Jonas
The current Qik app requires a jailbroken phone – allegedly it COULD eventually be in the App Store.
Jailbreaking your phone does void your warranty, but in most cases, it is totally reversable.
As long as you aren’t constantly streaming video over your cell connection, I doubt you would ever raise a red flag.
The bigger issue is the reliability of the program. The iPhone camera was not designed for video, so what video developers on it are doing is building software that strings together still images into video. So, the video is never going to be great. Couple that with an inconsistent internet connection and you’ve got a program that is mediocre at best.
I’ve used Qik on my iPhone a few times, both on its own and through Mogulus, and though it is a neat idea, it’s not quite ready.
Flipbook animation, anybody?
So why is a regular cellphone now better than an iPhone?
iPhone= with 3 Geez network service.