QiK Brings Video to iPhone (Legitimately)
It finally looks like video-recording is arriving on the iPhone, courtesy of QiK’s new app. The omission of a video-record feature for the iPhone has long been a major source of derision. The device is fully capable of supporting video, it simply comes down to either an oversight or ill-considered design decision regarding features on Apple’s part (and considering the Cupertino campus’s eye for detail, the latter is much more likely).
Qik, featured over at sister-site NewTeeVee.com back in June, is one of several video apps that owners of jailbroken iPhone’s have had access to for some time now. The interesting thing about QiK is that it streams live to the web — it means whatever you’re doing, where ever you may be, you can now broadcast live to the masses direct from your iPhone.
Fountain of Apple rumors, Kevin Rose, claims that QiK is very close to arriving at the App Store. “This is not a hacked or jailbroken version, this is the real deal. It’s not out in the App Store yet, but I hear it’s coming very soon.” Bringing serious substance to his rumor mongering, Rose actually broadcast the news live using the official QiK app itself.
hkiphone on October 19th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
Very cool! Now we just need a front-facing camera and voila! iChat Mobile!
Josh Illichmann on October 19th, 2008 at 9:22 pm
Ohhh very interesting, i will be getting this one for sure :)
Jason on October 19th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Curious how they manage to do this with *public* APIs, and if they aren’t using public APIs, whether Apple lets them through.
Elliot Swan on October 20th, 2008 at 12:52 am
Been looking forward to video hitting the iPhone for quite some time now, glad to see that it’s almost here. The live streaming should prove to be interesting, but I wonder if you can record for uploading to YouTube/Vimeo as well?
Brandon Eley on October 20th, 2008 at 6:24 am
I can’t wait to use Qik’s official iPhone app… I’ve been using the Jailbroken app for a while now and it’s great. I can only use it on WiFi because we still don’t have 3G here, but maybe one day :)
Tejas on November 3rd, 2008 at 11:20 am
What should be exact data or some ETA of this app.
mary on November 23rd, 2008 at 8:52 am
great! I have been looking for a video recording app since I got my iPhone! Can’t wait until avalible in app store!
Halie on June 16th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
So what happened with this? I looked in the iTunes app store and couldn’t find it. I see the new iPhone 3Gs has video recording, but I am not updating my iPhone yet.
Me on July 6th, 2009 at 12:44 pm
The Apple gestapo denied it from the App Store.
iPhones suck. Communist like control over your phone.