Yeah, the new iPhone now has 3G connectivity, but it still doesn’t support live video streaming from the built-in camera. This is where Qik comes in. Qik is an app that allows you to do what is currently impossible to the iPhone: make it a live streaming video camera. It’s not available in the App Store, which means you’ll have to have a jailbroken iPhone to download and it make it work. The latest version now supports even 1.1.4 running iPhone, but it won’t stream over an EDGE network.
Just sign up at Qik’s website to receive an SMS to activate it. Installation of the app itself is as easy as going to Multimedia Section in Cydia and clicking Qik, and you’re done.
[via TechCrunch]
August 15th, 2008 at 2:59 am
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August 17th, 2008 at 3:07 am
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August 20th, 2008 at 11:12 am
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August 25th, 2008 at 2:45 am
[...] Still in beta, the Qik service allows users to broadcast live video over the web from the camera that’s built-in to their mobile device. We’ve tried it on our Nokia N-Series devices, and it works awesomely. It’s like Twitter but for video. Definitely check it out on your iPhone. [...]
September 4th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
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August 22nd, 2009 at 3:11 pm
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