ok the next post will focus on streaming video clients for windows smartphone/pocket pc. what might you say by streaming video clients? no not a application that allow you stream video to your phone, but applications that let you stream your video to the world. kind of like you would see on a news channel live for the most part and anybody can watch it or you can have it private.

  the first aplication i will review is probably the most popular of the three i will review. its called qik you can find it at qik.com qik just started supporting windows mobile os. it has for the most part suported symbian s60. the client/application, that is out now is very much a beta one. as you can see in the picture it has a very appleaing user interface compared to the others. the application  gives you the ablity to set your video stream public meaning everyone can see it or private, meaning only thoose that you allow to see it. you can  also adjust the quailty and bitrate you wanna send out. you cant adjust the stream like you can in another apllication. but qik gives you two options min delay and max quality, the benfit of min delay is that its stream it out live with min amount of buffering. max sends out the best stream and if you dont have the enough  bandwith if will store it locally and upload when you have better bandwith. but remember that although the cell networks boast the download speed in the 500kbps and up range they dont tell you the upload speed usally hovers around 150kbps up give or take the networks. but this is changing fast with networks like rev a (sprint and verizon) and hsupa (att)

     the quailty of the video is the best out of the three you can go to www.qik.com and view a sample.  currently the applications is free , so if you have a windows device go and check it out

 





the next  application is  livecast. formerly pocketcaster it can be found at here www.comvu.com  its the oldest of the bunch i remeber using it when i had my htc hermes for thoose in america its was called the cingular 8525.  the user interface is a little diffrent than the qik one. it gives you more option to customize your video your sending out. it gives you the option on the size of the stream you want to upload from 25kbps up to 300kbps. unlike qik your also allowed to add gps to your stream. yes people will be able to see where you are and what your recording at the same time. another cool  feature is that you can send a link with your video to another phone,  unlike qik which you have to  view it on there website. this give you the option to send it as a text and the person can open the link on the cellphone. i personally think the video wasnt as good as qik and the program was less stable than qik. there were many times when i would click stream and no video  would show up but you could hear the audio. another problem i had with program it would lock up the device when exiting it. this is not a beta application ,again this  application is free and worth trying if you have a windows pocket pc or windows smartphone go try it out.





the last application is called OctroVideo. it can be found here www.octro.com this is the newest application of the bunch. i personally think its crap, for the following reason. the user interface is  terriable its basiclly a yellow bar on the bottom of the screen and give you almost no options at all. you get 3 options  select  image size, frames per seconds, rate quailty.  the  video you get from the application looks really pixelated and unusable. people look like blobs of squares. i would only get this application to compare it to other and see how bad it stinks