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Qik is an interesting service which let you stream live video through your mobile phone to the world. With Qik you can use your phone like a camcorder and capture entertaining and interesting momemts.

Qik allows you to go live by streaming anytime, anywhere right with your phone. Qik can prove as an excellent tool for capturing moments where you are an eyewitness and wish to capture those first moments. You can even start your own video blog and stream live through Qik.

While Qik is constantly adding support for new phones, currently it supports a wide range of Phone including the Blackberry and the iPhone and many Nokia S60 and Windows Mobile phones. You can find the complete list of supported phone here. Do ensure you have an appropriate data plan. It is also advisable to have an Unlimited Data Plan as video streaming can consume a considerable amount of bandwidth. Qik works over wifi and GPRS.

In order to get started, you must first sign up with Qik , Download the app for your mobile phone and you are good to start streaming live videos from your mobile.

How To Stream Your Live Video Using Qik?

• Launch Qik application
  
• Wait while Qik connects to an available network.
  
• Hit the stream button to record.
  
• Hit the same button to stop recording.
  
• Your video instantly streams to your profile page at qik.com/username.

Qik also has utilized the Facebook Connect, what it means is that you can now instantly share your Qik videos on Facebook the way you have been able to share photos for quite some time — directly from your mobile device. 

If you are worried about Privacy of your videos, Qik also has a privacy setting using which you can make your videos private.

 

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