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I decided to test out Qik’s live video streaming to see how they stack up against Next2Friends Live. Here is my first test over a solid 3.5G connection:

As you can see there is about a 9 second delay between an event and when it hits their website. This was the least amount of time I got over my 3.5G connection. Delay times were as high as 40 seconds for some of the other tests I ran. So I tried the same test with Next2Friends, over my 3.5G connection. Here is the result:

Notice the nearly instantaneous correlation between the event and when it is seen online. So to give them the benefit of the doubt I decided to next try Qik over my Wifi connection. Here is the result:

And finally, Next2Friends Live over a Wifi connection:

Notice that the delay between the event and when it is viewed online is no greater than 1 second on either the Wifi or the 3.5G connection with Next2Friends Live! With Qik this delay is quite variable, anywhere from 3 seconds on Wifi to 9-40+ seconds over 3.5G. Why should a delay matter you might ask? There are a host of very useful applications for TRUE live streaming from mobile. With delayed streaming from mobile you are stuck with one simple application: video blogging or something similar. It’s little more than a nifty way to instantly upload videos you shoot from your phone. Next2Friends Live in it’s current state is just the first step in a long succession of applications that are possible once you have truly live video streams from mobile. But you’ll have to just wait to see what I mean:)

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Hans Erik
Content Marketing Director
Hans at Next2Friends dot com