MY NOKIA E90 brought me wonderful news early this morning. Its newsfeeds included details of a new sevice called Qik Roam, a global roaming service that will let me use my phone to upstream live videos with Qik while I'm traveling abroad. I expect to save at least 60% on my roaming phone bills this way. In terms of damage to my wallet, that means I'll be able to pre-book my usage with Qik and never worry about getting charged up to 10 euro for every minute upstreamed video that I create. In my practical experience while traveling through Germany, Italy and New York, using Qik over the air with the local network provider is often more dependable than using Qik over a saturated wifi network during a conference event. By the way, everyone who buys a Qik Roam package in the first month from launch will automatically be entered into a drawing to win a free trip for two to Ireland. If I win, my Pennsylvania family get a Christmas trip.
I watched the Qik Video about the announcement after reading some feedback from people who could not access the video announcement when it was upstreamed live. There are some clever things that Qik could have done to make the video upstream smoother, ranging from using a fixed tripod for the camera and a DI box to accommodate microphones on each of the speakers. Those are technical competencies that we teach in a creative multimedia programme at Tipperary Institute in our quest to improve the quality of wedding videos worldwide.
Audio of the launch announcement [5.7 MB MP3 file]
