Nokia S60 Series to Ship with Qik Lifecasting

Written by Dana Oshiro / June 9, 2009 9:00 AM / 7 Comments

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While lifecasting in mobile devices is not new, Nokia announced this morning that its S60 series phones will be shipping Qik. Starting with the Nokia N97, Qik will provide live video capture functionality for all Nokia's Symbian devices.

The application features a touch screen interface and supports 19 languages including Spanish, French, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew and British English. (Because in the story of your life, real honour deserves a "u") Qik also supports nHD video and allows for widescreen 16:9 aspect ratio and 642 x 358 video. A sample video is available here.

The significance of shipping phones with built-in real time life streaming could be huge. It's true that Nokia S60 owners already enjoyed Qik through Share on Ovi and competitor Kyte's Mobile Producer, but pre-installed software is more likely to get users experimenting especially when Twitter, Facebook and YouTube are just a few clicks away.

The new Qik partnership may have device manufacturers attempting to strike similar deals with lifecasting competitors including Flixwagon and the ever-popular, Justin.tv. Mobile handheld video capture is certainly a far cry from Canadian professor Steve Mann's, original inventions of the early 80s. As Nokia sets a device precedent with live video capture, it's more than likely that Mann will see his golden era of live video blogging - and he'll be pleased to note that no one has to wear an exoskeleton to get it done.

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I've been playing with the N97 already and noted the inclusion of Qik. Here's my review... http://www.last100.com/2009/06/09/nokia-n97-review/

I'll try and test Qik and post some thoughts later.

Posted by: steve | June 9, 2009 10:57 AM

nokia gsm communication technology is currently very strong brand to companies in the forefront

Posted by: Dans | June 9, 2009 2:29 PM

Qik is great, I used it via my Nokia 5800 to live stream many interview and events such as WEF in Jordan where i interviewed the CEO of Skype and Opera

http://qik.com/video/1680437?page=5

using Qik is fun and an easy way to stream things with almost no budget. Live streaming via mobile is a game changer in the history of mankind, now any event will be lived streamed by anyone, the citizen will be breaking news faster than any media.

As for Ustream it is better than Qik in a way that it enables live streaming from your PC, ustream has a a mobile app like Qik for Nokia S60 however it did not work with me and keeps freezing, Qik beats them in S60 platform. I just wish if Qik has a PC webcam and camera streaming option.

Posted by: ArabCrunch | June 9, 2009 3:29 PM

http://su.pr/1uvl8U [from http://twitter.com/marshallk/statuses/2091505108]

Posted by: Marshall Kirkpatrick | June 11, 2009 12:08 PM

It will be great to have streaming possibility on my Nokia, I just hope this will be standard in future

Posted by: Jfkcro | June 18, 2009 11:44 PM

using Qik is fun and an easy way to stream things with almost no budget. Live streaming via mobile is a game changer in the history of mankind, now any event will be lived streamed by anyone, the citizen will be breaking news faster than any media.

As for Ustream it is better than Qik in a way that it enables live streaming from your PC, ustream has a a mobile app like Qik for Nokia S60 however it did not work with me and keeps freezing, Qik beats them in S60 platform. I just wish if Qik has a PC webcam and camera streaming option.

Posted by: دردشه | July 12, 2009 5:50 AM