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Qik [Free - iTunes link] update… removes Wi-Fi-only restriction?! That’s what Jeremy saw when he checked his updates!

For those unfamiliar with Qik, it lets you stream live video over the internet, and archive it via Qik.com. I’ve been playing with the beta for a while.)

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Popular live video streaming app, Qik — previously available to Jailbreak users — has finally landed in the iTunes App Store… without its live streaming capability. This version of Qik (Free – iTunes link) records video from an iPhone 3GS which you can later upload via Wi-Fi. (A tragedy given how well the beta for the full version works!).

Boy Genius caught the story, and gets all up in Apple’s face about the continued crippling of applications, though we can’t help but wonder if this again falls into AT&T’s new prohibition against streaming apps, which saw SlingMedia Player relegated to Wi-Fi only status?

Apparently a 3G version has been submitted to Apple, but until and unless the FCC forces some answers, we may not see any movement on that either. Of course, the aforementioned, un-crippled Jailbreak version remains an option.

Chief TWiT Leo Laporte just streamed live from his iPhone via the official (non-Jailbreak) version of the Qik App, which he says should be available in the App Store soon.

All the rage last year in the blogsphere, many iPhone users were stuck carrying around a Nokia 95 just for Qik live streaming. Perhaps, no longer!

Check out the recording to get an idea of the quality. Looks like it doesn’t handle motion very well, but is otherwise fairly decent. Still, we have to wonder, what will this do to AT&T’s “rabbit ear” 3G network?

Either way, we can’t wait for this App to drop!

Yup, Kevin Rose is back, back again, this time with a sneak peak at Qik for the iPhone, the online video broadcasting App that everyone and their Twitter-feed was “going live” with on the Nokia N95 last year.

Not a jailbreak, but a real honest-to-Steveness App Store application, Kevin says it will be available soon. We say… will Apple approve it? And if they do, what will it say having internet broadcast video capability on a device that still lacks support for local video recording?

Who knows? As Dieter points out, Apple’s cagey approval/rejection process is still incomprehensible.

Qik looks to be One Sweet App, however, and we can’t wait for it to “go live.” Can you?