During Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Nokia announced the Ovi Store, its new application and personalized content marketplace. As you can see on the Ovi Store site, Qik will be a featured app there.
Now we’re equally excited to announce that Qik has integrated the ability for users to share their Qik videos to their community on Ovi Share by Nokia. (Full press release here.)
Ovi Share is the online service that allows users to share photos and videos, from their PC, Mac or straight from their camera phone with one easy step. Users can share content with anyone – no sign-up or membership is required for recipients to view the photos or videos that have been shared with them.
Qikkers can share their Qik content directly from their handsets – the first such Ovi Share integration to offer such easy sharing of live mobile videos. In addition, Qik users can send their videos to Ovi Share with just one click from the Share widget on Qik’s website. For more information on the Ovi Share integration, visit http://qik.com/ovi.
Qik’s CEO, Ramu Sunkara, says: “We’re excited to offer the Ovi Share integration to the hundreds of millions of Nokia device owners around the world. This, in combination with being announced as a featured application for a marketplace as significant as the Ovi Store, is an important progression of Qik’s relationship with Nokia.”
“Nokia’s Ovi Share brings the power of the internet in a simple and intuitive way, by enabling consumers to capture, save and share their photos and videos straight from the camera and gallery applications on their Nokia handset,” said Lior Nir, Director of Product Management in Nokia’s Media Services Group. “Qik integration with Nokia’s Ovi Share strengthens our offering by bringing real-time video sharing on the Nokia handsets using Qik service and re-live it on Ovi Share.”