As much as I enjoy the iPhone App Store and the applications available there, I also find the need to explore alternate applications that do not fit into the App Store or its restrictions. To this end, I have turned to jailbreaking my iPhone (still the 2G version) and installing 3rd party applications via both Cydia and Installer.
Aside from my desire to customize the theme of my phone via Winterboard, I also enjoy the innovation that takes place outside the controlling hands of Apple. One such innovation is the application Qik, which enables you to stream video (with audio) from your iPhone to the web through the iPhone’s shitty 2 megapixel camera.
I have used Qik over WiFi on my 2G iPhone and it works great. Here is an example - the video files are saved on the Qik site after streaming.
Less effective on the 2G iPhone is streaming via EDGE (without WiFi). If your signal strength is good, it is passable, but if your signal strength weakens, the video will freeze or get extremely choppy.
Overall, still a pretty cool application that lets you shoot video (or do live streams) via your iPhone and automatically save to the web.
