With Flixwagon already launched and bringing live video streaming to the iPhone, rival iPhone-as-video-stream application developer Qik has finally come to market with their very own video streaming solution for jailbroken iPhones.
Both Qik and Flixwagon, which respectively have applications bearing their namesake, provide software that allows compatible handsets to broadcast live streaming video to the web from their mobile phone. Unfortunately, Apple hasn’t approved streaming video on the iPhone and iPhone 3G, so we won’t be seeing the Qik (or Flixwagon, for that matter) video streaming application hitting the AppStore anytime soon.
But, for those of you with first-generation iPhones running the older iPhone 1.1.4 OS (iPhone v1.1.4 firmware) can get in on the fun. Qik is now available through the jailbreak-based Installer application. Again, you’ll need to have an iPhone with a jailbroken iPhone 1.1.4 OS.
Seeing as how the iPhone 3G is running iPhone 2.0 OS out of the box, iPhone 3G users aren’t going to be getting jiggy with live video streaming from their HSPA handsets. Original iPhone owners can get their hands on the new Qik application by adding Qik’s jailbreak applications repository (http://qik.com/iphone1) to their Installer.app’s “Sources” list. If you don’t know how, hit up out tutorial here. If you’re iPhone still isn’t savvy with a jailbreak solution, go ahead and jailbreak it already! Find out how to do that here and here.
Qik is working to bring the Qik application to the iPhone 3G, so all you early adopters would do well to sit tight and wait it out. For what it’s worth, Qik is coming to the HTC Touch Diamond, HTC TyTn II (Kaiser) and HTC Shift in the near future.