How To Live Stream From A Cell Phone: Top Services To Broadcast Yourself From Your Mobile Phone

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How To Live Stream From A Cell Phone: Top Services To Broadcast Yourself From Your Mobile Phone

First and foremost, I’ve listed some key features and difference you need to know(highlighted with a different colors) to help you to compare each service and choose your ideal streaming video services to your needs.

• Geolocation: Aree ideal for on-location live streaming of events such as concerts and sporting matches.
• Distribution: Auto-posting to YouTube and other video sharing sites.
• Text-chat: Text chat messages from viewers while streaming.
• Private: Share live video from your mobile phone with selected private audience.
• Recording: Allows you to record live stream locally.
• Price: Price and premium accounts.

Here, the details:

1. Kyte – Kyte is a web service that lets you stream live videos from your mobile phone for free. It support stream live videos from Symbian S60 3rd edition mobile phones and iPhone. It produce live streaming video, recorded video, and pictures from any compatible camera phone, while during your live streaming sessions you can text-chat your viewers. You can also upload your videos to MySpace or Bebo by setting the preferences inside your account page. Unfortunatly, they no includes private streaming or geolocation.

2. Bambuser - Bambuser enables you to stream live video from your compatible mobile phone at no charge.  You can live text-chat your viewers as you stream and, if you have a Symbian-based phone, also share your position using the geolocation feature. All your live streams are automatically recorded inside Bambuser servers so you can access your recordings at a later time. You can set your videos to “private” so that only users you select are authorized to watch your clips. No auto-posting.

 

3. QIK – QIK allows free live streaming through your mobile phone. It features chat in real-time, and you can turn on geolocation your video and share your position on a map, and also restrict your live streaming videos to a privated audience. Videos you stream with QIK are automatically recorded for later use and sharing via web.

If you mobile is out of reach, don’t worry because QIK record all your data and will automatically transmitted when your mobile acquires the signal again. Auto-posting your videos to Twitter or third-party video-sharing sites is as easy as setting the preferences for these services. If you want to see QIK in action on Iphone I’ll reccomend you to watch this video below.

4. Next2Friends - Next2Friends offers a great service that you can utilize to stream live videos from your supported mobile phone for free. It support most of know mobile phones versions like Nokia, LG, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Iphone, Samsung Blackberry. It also support live text-chat to connect with your viewers, send pictures or audio files, and submit polls. Geolocation allows you to be found by customers in your area who like your content. No auto-recording, auto-posting to third party video-sharing sites or private streaming are available.

 

5. Molv - Molv is a new free mobile live video streaming. It support symbian mobile phones, but the list is continuously growing. Live videos are automatically recorded and accessible from Molv website. No geolocation, private streaming, and live text-chat is available.

 

6. Stickam - Stickam enables you to stream live video from your compatible mobile phone at no charge. While the video have an optimal resolution to broadcast, Stickam includes a text-chat feature to engage your audience during live streaming. Video streamed via mobile are automatically recorded and accessible at a later time. Clips produced with Stickam can also be set to private to let only selected people to watch your live videos. No geolocation or auto-posting to third-party video-sharing sites.

 

7. LiveCLIQ - LiveCLIQ is a free solution to stream live videos from your supported mobile phone. Available for iPhone and Nokia S60 phones, It also available for those mobile phones that support Java technology(through a dedicated client). You can broadcast live video to a selected audience and also share your position using GPS. No auto-posting to third-party video-sharing sites or live text-chat, auto-recording of your streamed videos.

 

8. Seero – Seero is a free mobile live video streaming that fuses live and on-demand video with GPS mapping. Geolocation to share your position on a map are available. Any mobile with GPS capabilities works with Seero. While Live text-chat is supported. No auto-recording of videos, auto-posting to third-party video-sharing sites or private broadcasting.

 

9. Yamgo - Yamgo is a service to stream live videos from your mobile phone for free. Compare other services, Yamgo also allows publishers to make money from their video by add ads in the videos distributed to other platforms (desktop, mobile phones or other supported devices).

The videos you stream are automatically recorded. Unfortunatly, they do not includes, live text-chat, or private streaming, as geolocation as well.

 

10. LiveCast - LiveCast is a free solution to stream live videos from your supported mobile phone. Live videos are automatically recorded inside Livecast servers. Geolocation to share your position on a map are available as support live text-chat as well. No auto-posting to third party video-sharing sites.