Qik Premium announced, available exclusively through Ovi Store

Published by Rafe Blandford at 20:15 GMT, March 2nd 2010

Qik today announced, via its blog, that it is making Qik Premium available for select Nokia devices through the Ovi Store. Qik is an application / service allows you to stream video live from your smartphone to the web. Advantages of the premium version include improved processing on uploaded videos (higher quality play back and improved speed on low bandwidth connections), unlimited storage space and the ability to download videos (that you have uploaded to Qik) to your PC.

Qik Premium

Qik Premium running on the N97 mini

Qik is promoting the ability to download videos as allowing you to add your Qik videos to your media collection, so that you can, for example, burn them to a CD. Qik say they will be adding additional premium features later in the year and that these will be made available to those who download the premium version now. One of the upcoming premium features will be the ability to upload pre-recorded videos to Qik (e.g. videos shot by the phone's camera application).

The Qik Premium version has an introductory price of $4.99 (for a year), which will be available until the end of March. It is available exclusively via Nokia's Ovi Store. You can find it via search, this direct link (mobile) or by looking in the 'Recommended' channel in Ovi Store. This is the first mobile version of Qik's Premium product.

The most obvious and immediate differences is that videos uploaded via a premium client have a higher quality version available for playback. When playing 'premium-client-recorded' videos on the Qik site you are given the option to watch a 'HQ' version of the video. Here is an example video provided by Qik.

Qik Premium comparison HD

Standard Qik video compared to Qik premium (HD quality) on the right. The full video is embedded below.
 



 

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Platforms: S60 5th Edition

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News Discussion

whatleydude
Wow, you can really see the difference. Good work Qik.
Looking forward to having a play sometime soon.
Jimmy1
Maybe I'm just dense and it isn't obvious to me, but why would I want to pay the premium and download videos to my PC, that I've already uploaded, when I can just drag and drop those same videos from the phone/SD card to my PC?

Also, does anybody here use Qik? I'm not seeing the obvious benefits apart from not using local mass memory storage.

Not knocking Qik, more power to them, but it seems like a solution looking for a problem rather than the other way around.
Unregistered
I've loved Qik on the various Nokia S60 v3 devices I've owned over the years, but sad that it doesn't work on my S60 v5 Sony Ericsson Satio yet. Something to do with the way the software handles the camera.

Hopefully fixed soon!
Rafe
Jimmy1 - I think the appeal of Qik is in its immediacy and ease of use. Its very easy to get video streaming on to the web (compare this to the manual approach). For those that live in social media or who like to post their lives online then it is a must have application.
Unregistered
I love Qik. I have used it since it was still in closed beta state. Those who have not used Quj sghould understand that Qik allows you to stream live video to internet. So Qik is much more that just tool which uploads video to imtermet. You can eg. go to some party and then stream live video from there. That's really great, I have used Qi a lot.
seki
until they support my main phone (Satio)
.. Qik is ok but not great .. Maybe I missed it .. but does this "premium" version allow you to upload a video later?

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