Archive for March, 2010

NBC Bay Area makes a visit to Qik

Sunday, March 28th, 2010

The buzz surrounding Qik and Sprint HTC Evo 4G just got better! The friendly folks from NBC Bay Area came down yesterday to our headquarters in Redwood City for a special TV feature on achieving our latest milestone on being the launch partner and preloaded on this amazing device.

The Qik team joins in the Paparazzi fun!

The Qik team joins in the Paparazzi fun!

Scott Budman interviewing Bhaskar

Scott Budman interviewing Bhaskar

Jiuyu capturing the Qik moment!

Jiuyu capturing the Qik moment!

Daniel doing a demo of me..

Daniel doing a demo of me..

While the pictures pretty much sum up the memorable experience, nothing beats ending an amazing week with watching a special TV feature of Qik on NBC Bay Area News the very same evening! Thank you everyone for making it happen! You can watch the clip here:

View more news videos at: http://www.nbcbayarea.com/video.

Click here to read the full story covered on NBC Bay Area.

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Qik Premium featured on Nokia Ovi Store

Friday, March 26th, 2010

Logged into Ovi Store and saw this – nice!!

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Qik Premium featured on Nokia Ovi Store!

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San Jose Mercury News highlights Qik on the Sprint HTC EVO 4G

Thursday, March 25th, 2010

It was great to see Qik front and center in the Business + Technology section of the San Jose Mercury News today…

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We're everywhere - thanks to Sprint HTC Evo 4G!

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Sprint adopts Qik for its 4G service!

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010

We are thrilled to announce that Qik is a launch partner for Sprint 4G, including being preloaded on the world’s first 3G/4G Android phone – HTC EVO(TM) 4G (link to Sprint press release).

We have been playing around with the HTC EVO 4G on the Sprint 4G network for the past few months and must say that we are eagerly looking forward to this amazing device to hit the stores this summer. This device offers one of the most robust video experiences on a mobile phone today with one of the industry’s largest touch-screen displays, 8MP auto-focus camera capable of recording HD videos, a forward-facing 1.3MP camera and a built-in microphone in the back that makes the audio quality of the videos that you capture so much better!

With a device as capable as this and a partnership with Sprint, provider of the fastest 4G experience in US, we are pushing the boundaries again to bring you the highest quality, live and social video sharing experience that will enable you to:

  • Record, share what you see in high resolution, including HD from capable devices, to your favorite social networks like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube.
  • Watch Qik videos live or recorded in HD and in blazing fast 4G speeds right from your mobile phone
  • Communicate through video messages live or recorded with their friends and family

Visit http://sprint.com/evo to pre-register for the amazing HTC EVO 4G device and experience Qik in Sprint’s wicked fast 4G network.

Qik on Sprint's HTC EVO 4G

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Posted in Android, Announcements, HTC, Partners, Product | 5 Comments »

Make your videos even more special with Qik Premium

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010

You can always do a lot with your free Qik account, but starting today you can do even more with Qik Premium. Download your videos, burn them into DVDs, enjoy higher quality playback and faster playback on slower connections for a promotional price of only $4.99/year.

  • This promotion is exclusively available from the Ovi Store by Nokia
  • Special promotional price ends March 31, 2010
  • With this promotion, you also get free access to features that we’ll be adding to Qik Premium in the Ovi Store this year.

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Build your mobile video library

Save your videos (MPEG-4) from qik.com to your computer, add them to your existing media collection, edit them, burn them into DVDs or create movies with your Qik videos.

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Better playback experience

We apply our unique high quality transcoding to make your videos look even better. See the difference for yourself by clicking the “HQ” button in this video. You can even playback these high quality videos from your mobile phone.

Your videos are also optimized for faster playback on all types of network connections. Say if you are on a slower connection, switch to non-HQ and playback your videos faster.

Below is the screenshot of the first frame of the video between the two quality levels. Watch the difference around the number 700, the texture of the grass around it and the houses and trees in the back.

Non HQ (HQ button is greyed)

Non HQ (HQ button is grey'd)

HQ

HQ

Tip: to record high quality videos, we recommend using a phone with at least 3MP camera resolution. Also, checkout tips on shooting cell phone video and eight tips for shooting great videos with a cell phone camera.

Coming next to Qik Premium:

  • Ability to upload and share videos recorded with your mobile phone’s native camera application

Qik Premium is now exclusively available from the Ovi Recommends Channel for a promotional price of only $4.99 / year, which is less than 2cents / day. You can also download this from the Ovi Store application on your Nokia phone by going to http://store.ovi.mobi/content/27434 on your Nokia phone. This promotional price also provides you with access to all the features that we’ll be adding to Qik Premium this coming year.

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Posted in Announcements, Nokia, Nokia S60, premium, Product, Symbian | 34 Comments »