Qik: We Can Do Live Video on the iPhone, Too!
Like Flixwagon before it, live video streamer Qik just said it had a working product on Apple’s iPhone. Competition in this space is stiff, despite it being very early on; Flixwagon had only made its announcement this morning.
The product will be available for Qik alpha users next week, said a spokesperson. Qik had less than a week ago said it would also be compatible with Windows Mobile phones.
For a side-by-side comparison, here’s the Flixwagon video:
Our next project: finding out how they do this without a video camera.
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They do this without a video camera by streaming the images up to their host computer, which processes those images into the Flash video that you end up seeing on a web page.
steve Garfield on June 12th, 2008 at 3:34 pm - Permalink
Yessss, my prayers have been answered. This makes more sense to me since you’ll have unlimited storage space online as compare to your video recording device. The iPhone gets more purposeful as applications like these develop. With this, we’ve just skipped video recording and jumped right into live video streaming!
Kevin Lim on June 12th, 2008 at 4:03 pm - Permalink
Hey Steve, that’s not what Qik told me — check this out: http://newteevee.com/2008/06/12/qik-iphone-was-video-capable-all-along/
Liz Gannes on June 12th, 2008 at 5:17 pm - Permalink
Thanks Liz. I did not know that! Thanks for the reporting on this.
steve Garfield on June 13th, 2008 at 12:43 am - Permalink