Mobile / Cell Phone Thoughts & Reviews

I got an email from my friends over at Flixwagon the other day and they seem to have been busy lately.  There is to much for me to write about here so unfortunately I will just have to cut and paste because I’m running out of time today.

There are two easy ways to get the most recent version of Flixwagon on your mobile phone:

From your computer: log in to flixwagon.com, access Account Settings (on the left-hand side menu), and choose one of the three download options under Mobile Settings: send text message with download link; download to computer (and then transfer to phone); or via mobile browser.
From your mobile phone: on your mobile browser go to: m.flixwagon.com/nokia and follow the installation instructions. When asked, make sure you indicate that you already have a user name and password, and add those in the preferences menu after installation.

By the way, FW is now open to everyone, as in no more invites.  YAY.

Some of the new features include

Share on Twitter and YouTube directly from phone: you can share individual videos on twitter and YouTube directly  from your device, as well as customize the message or titles. All you need to do is add your Twitter or YouTube account details on Flixwagon.com, and then you can customize posts directly from your phone.

Detailed sharing from device: on your device you can now easily choose which specific groups (friends, family, etc.) can access your video. Make sure you set up your contacts, groups, and alerts first on flixwagon.com and you can start sharing flix with them on the fly.

Digital Zoom-in and zoom-out.

Post messages back to chat. You can send IM messages back to the video chat room, making chats around your video 2-way. This is especially useful when you want to respond to your viewers’ comments without interrupting the video or audio in the broadcast.

Change title: you can now change the video title directly from the phone while broadcasting.  This is great when the ‘right’ headline comes to you while you broadcast (and can help more viewers discover your broadcast while you’re still broadcasting live).

Choose between delay or video quality: in the preferences section you can determine whether your broadcasts will be optimized for the shortest delay, or highest video quality.

This is all very exciting for Flixwagon and I hope things keep going in the right direction for them, UP UP UP!  Congrats guys.