03 March 2010

Make Your Videos Even
More Special With Qik Premium!

Qik, the leading live mobile video streaming platform, expands their relationship with Nokia by offering a Premium Qik application for Symbian devices through Nokia Ovi store.

Starting today you can 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.

Qik lets anyone easily stream live video from their handset, sharing their moments in real-time with selected friends and family or the entire world. More than three dozen Nokia handsets are Qik-compatible, from mass market feature phones to elite smartphones. As a PRO member of Forum Nokia, the world's largest mobile developer support organization, Qik received tools and technical information to implement the seamless integration.

* 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.

"Qik is an excellent example of a powerful, easy-to-use application available now for Nokia devices," said Rob Taylor, Head of Forum Nokia. "At Forum Nokia, we're looking for companies like Qik that distinguish our extensive range of devices and services from the competition to further elevate the Ovi Store."

Qikkers can share their Qik content directly from their handsets - the first such Share on Ovi integration to offer such easy cross-posting of live mobile videos. Videos can be uploaded automatically from their device without users having to manually send them via the phone or website. In addition, Qik users can send their videos to Ovi Share with just one click from the Share widget on Qik's website.

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.

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.

For more information on how to sign up for QIK check out their website at www.qik.com