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Justin.tv has been a major player in streaming video for over 4 years now. When the website first came online the purpose was streaming mobile video with a web cam, small laptop and a mobile broadband card. Now 4 years later JTV is finally releasing their 1st application on a mobile phone platform. Today the Justin.tv application was released to the android market. Being a lifecaster just became a whole lot easier. Maybe we should start calling is droidcasting since it is coming from an android phone.

Justin.tv Broadcaster Android App

The Justin.tv application is currently available to all android phones running android 1.6, 2.0, 2.1 and 2.2. It is a very simple application to use. Just log into your Justin.tv account, choose which social network you want to share your broadcast with and then hit the giant red record button. Within seconds you are streaming live video to your Justin.tv channel. Also included in the app is chat. Currently you can only broadcast with the application but the guys over at Justin.tv are hard at work building in the ability to watch video on the phone which would make this app so much more epic. The entire Justin.tv experience inside one application would be awesome. It is coming and hopefully it is out very soon.
The following video is narrated by the one and only Justin Kan. He gives you a little demo of how everything works in the new application. Don’t mind his voice. He thinks he could have been a voice over person for movies. After this video I am going to say he has no future is voice work.

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It has been 12 months since my last phone purchase. For a year I’ve been using the HTC Dream aka G1. The phone’s been awesome to use and it has been fun to watch the evolution of android. The G1 is a special phone because it was not only the 1st android phone but it has a huge amount of people developing custom roms and themes for it. The phone has also been my only internet connection for many months. I’ve even started using it to connect my ps3 and play Call of Duty online. There is not much the phone can not do. The only downside I’ve seen to the phone is the camera. But that is a problem with many cell phones. Something I hope HTC and the rest of the phone makers work to improve. Parting with my G1 will be hard but I think it is time for a change.

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Rumors have been going around for months about Google coming out with its own phone. Those rumors have turned out to be true. Over the past few days lots of information and even a few pictures have been leaking out about the Google Phone dubbed Nexus One. It really is a sexy looking phone. All the specs and pricing haven’t been released yet but many people are saying that it will be released on January 5th with the price tag of $199. Inside the phone is a speedy snapdragon processor. The camera on the nexus one should be a big improvement from my G1. It is supposed to be a 5mp camera. The only thing that could make this phone even bigger and better for me was if it came with Flash 10 on it. But I don’t see that happening since it is taking Adobe forever to release an updated version of Flash for smart phones. I will be getting this phone the day it is released unless of course the pricing is wrong. Hopefully Google and HTC release some official information about the phone soon.

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