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Qik allows your mobile phone to broadcast videos on live by streaming on the internet.

At the beginning of the year, this application was published but in a restricted way, only available for pre-registered or invited users. Now it has been published in a beta version and it is available for anyone who signs up in the website, even if you doesn’t want to stream videos but see and comment other people videos.

If you sign up you will be able to stream videos on a website directly from your mobile phone using your data plan to connect to the internet. In this new version you will have the chance of creating areas for your videos, grouping and making them public or private.

This new public version includes support for new phones such as Motorola Q or Nokia N96, and in following versions it will include support for iPhone 3G and several devices from HTC as HTC Touch Diamond.

One more feature of Qik is that the latency from the start of the recording to the beginning of the broadcasting on the internet is just between a half-second and 3 seconds. Half a second is extremely fast! This makes Qik the fastest and most live system of the online video streaming sites.

I’m sure that live video streaming from mobile phones is becoming something important in our lifes, better than just sending multimedia messages so that with Qik we can share on live our streams with whoever we want.

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After doing a great job on jailbreaking iPhone 1.0, we all were waiting for ‘iPhone Dev Team’ jailbreaking iPhone 3G too. And it took only five days after launch.

Anyway, I think much fewer people is going to liberate its iPhone 3G. When first version of iPhone was released it was available only in few markets: USA, UK, Germany, France,… Many people from other unfortunate countries was interested in buying an iPhone, not signing the contract with operators, unlocking it and then using the iPhone with their current SIM - and tariffs- in their country.

Now, iPhone 3G is available much broader over the world and flights to New York for buying and iPhone will stop - specially from Europe.

Moreover - and this is a key point - iPhone 3G is given the end user only when the contract with the mobile carrier is already signed. So, you could unlock your iPhone and use it through your previous operator network, but this will not save you from paying the fees to the operator who sold you the iPhone.

For sure, not many people will be interesting in paying twice for its mobility bill.

Yes, the App Store have more than five hundred apps and counting… however, just a few are useful and I have not been surprised by any of them, there´s nothing we already didn´t know.

Via TUAW, I discovered DataCase, a new iPhone app which will be uploaded to the App Store next 28th July. I´m really looking forward to test it. DataCase seems to be all I were waiting for: it turns your iPhone/iPod Touch into an external wireless drive (withouth syncing iTunes!), it lets you drag and drop files and even view them (powerpoint, excel, pdf, etc).

We will have to wait for benchmarking it, I´m not sure about its performance as on its official website it says they use “industry standard FTP” as well as HTTP. Let´s hope it´s quicker than iTunes (well, that´s not too difficult).

Via TUAW |  Link veiosoft - DataCase

Are you thinking on buying a Windows Mobile smartphone but you don´t know which one to choose. Samsung Omnia is one of the best choices nowadays. See the physical diferences between iPhone & Omnia in the pictures below to have an idea of the size and specs of this great smartphone.

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This is one of the most interesting news in mobile software development i have heard in months.

A great system allows you, through a wireless sensor network, to know wich of the 24,000 metered parking spaces in San Francisco are free at any moment. Great!

Drivers will be alerted to empty parking places either by displays on street signs, or by looking at maps on screens of their smartphones. They may even be able to pay for parking by cellphone, and add to the parking meter from their phones without returning to the car.

Read here the full article.

Link Streetline
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Telefonica Movistar distributed last friday only 10.000 iPhone 3G in Spain,  where more than 200.000 iphone maniacs was waiting for it. Of course many people could not buy it, including me.

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Link Manel Fontdevila’s Blog

Caixa Penedes by the hand of SevenCLick, company of  the TBS Group specialized in development and consultancy services on mobile technologies, presents its Online Banking application completely developed fo the iPhone.

Coinciding with the launch of the iPhone 3G in Spain next July 11th, clients of Caixa Penedes could accede from this link mobile.caixapenedes.com to new surroundings of acces for iPhone in which to consult and operate with their accounts, as well as visualize corporative and commercial information and social responsibility of this entity.

Accounts and cards global liquids, account movements consultancy, money transfers between own accounts or another accounts, charging prepaid mobile phone accounts, branch and cashier localization via Google Maps, are some of the features supported, all of them specifically developed for the first time using to the limit the capacities of the famous device of those of Cupertino.

Link Press release
Link CaixaPenedes
Link MobileCaixaPenedes

Oh men!, tomorrow is the 3G day, we are going to get them, and Movistar iPhone 3G plans has been revealed a few minutes ago. There are prices and plans for all pockets, check them all in this link.

Here in our head office everybody are crazy, of course tonight is going to be a sleepless night. I am so nervous :D

Link Movistar iPhone

Sharp, has just launched a new mobile TV phone on Japanese market. This model will be available under the name Sharp Aquos 923SH, but only for the subscribers of SoftBank (Japanese mobile operator).

Main features:

• 3.3 inch LCD
• Swiveling display
• TV Mobile (DVB)
• 16.7 million colors
• 480×845 (woouu!!)
• Camera of 5.2 Megapixel with auto focus, flash, face detection, wide-angle capabilities and video recording.
• GPS
• 3G W-CDMA and GSM standard
• Bluetooth
• 135 grams
• 113×50x18.6 millimeters
• Battery should provide up to 350 hours of standby or 4 hours of talk-time.

It’s a pity that this only available in Japan. :(

Via Gizmovil