Ustream App
Ustream App for iPhone and iPod touch
Today the Ustream.tv application was released. First, if you are into watch live streams via Ustream, I can strongly recommend this app for several reasons. For a start, what caught my eye first was the quality of the live video. It's sharp, and providing you have a good connection; it should stream smoothly, which it did. The user interface of the application is clearly laid out with 'Top Live', 'Featured' and 'All Live' on the top and a nice search facility to the right.
However, nothing's perfect and there is certainly room for improvement. For instance, when viewing videos I would like the option of being able to fill the screen. Instead you get spaces either side of the video. In portrait mode, there are black spaces above and below; fair enough as the video is widescreen but when viewing it in landscape mode you still get black spaces however either side this time.
There were a couple of features that were mentioned in the application description on iTunes, it mentions that it allows users to login with their Ustream account. Well, for a start I haven't found this feature so if anyone has please say. Also, the description mentions that you send chat messages to the chatroom via the iPhone. I assume that you have to login, but still, there is no clear button showing - 'login' or something of that sort.
Overall, a neat application and I recommend anyone with an iPhone or iPod touch to try it. Plus, it's free, which is always good! I look forward to trying it out when Dave streams!
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Simon Brown
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Reader Comments (3)
I'll definitely be checking this out!
Well... that is very very cool! I'll be downloading this!
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I have been waiting for this. Thank you for writing about this! You rock!