Qik isn’t the newest news but I just tried out for the first time today. I must say I was impressed. Qik is a homebrew 3rd party native App that can be install via Cydia under the ‘Multimedia’ category. It ties in with their free video web service that you need to register for. The registration was pretty quick and painless but did involve sending a SMS message to my iPhone. There was an option to not have to do this but I didn’t bother following that route opting for quickly clicking on the link in the SMS message to tie my iPhone to my Qik account.
Once all this is done the fun begins, all you do is open Qik press record and it will start streaming live audio and video from your iPhone to your Qik account where it can be viewed from anywhere in the world. You can obviously select whether a video is publicly viewable or not.
From my iPhone:
If you’re someone that cares about bandwidth costs, maybe because you live in Canada (F@#! YOU ROGERS!) Then you might want to make sure you’re using WiFi or 3G and not EDGE. This could result in a hefty bill at the end of the month. Quite the price to pay for trying to stream live footage of your cat on to the net.
Next thing it’ll be “For only £2.99 Per Night, you can watch Alias420 do whatever you ask! Live from the Livingroom!”
*cringes*
:p
Um I don’t know about you But on my 1.1.4 Iphone 1st gen has no Qik in the cydia app . If anyone knows of a source link for the installer app or another way to get it would be much appreciated. I also tried the way their website had {ex. them sending me a text on how to get it} and got nothing from them and tried multiple times.
You might want to give flixwagon a try - it gives a better support when it comes to lousy network coverage.