New iPhone Photo App: iVidCam

Description from the AppStore: iVidCam turns your iPhone 3G & 2G into a video camera! Record mp4 videos with impressive 280x360 resolution in portrait or landscape, and wifi transfer them for safe keeping to your computer. Special launch price sale!

Just in time for the holidays, now you don't need to jailbreak your phone or upgrade to the 3Gs to capture all of your special moments on video.

Features:

• Impressive video resolution, 280x360 for both portrait and landscape recording.
• Estimated frame rate is 3-7 frames per second. This is the fastest we can take using the Apple-approved developer kit.
• Only limit to how long you can take a video is your iPhone storage. We've taken videos 10 minutes long with no problem. Longer videos take a while to encode, so be prepared.
• iVidCam encodes and saves your videos as mp4 files inside your app. No need to have internet connection because all the encoding is done within the app (and not on a far away server). iVidCam uses advanced video encoding technology.
• View all recorded videos with landscape movie viewer
• WiFi transfer your videos to your desktop for safe keeping. Tested to play well on QuickTime Player.
• Upload your video to YouTube, and then you can share your YouTube link via email or Twitter.
• Visit http://ividcam.com for latest news about iVidCam.
• Must have iPhone OS 3.1 or higher
• Recorded videos might appear a bit choppy due to frame rate capture. Sound recording can be turned off in settings for improved frame rate capture.
• iPhone 3Gs users, please do not purchase this app because you already are able to record video.

Note: iVidCam records whatever shows on your screen while recording, including alerts from other apps. Receiving phone calls while recording will cancel recording. If you have an important long video to shoot, turn off notifications and activate airplane mode in your iPhone settings.

AppStore Link: iVidCam - Price £1.19/$1.99

Editors comments: I was lucky enough to beta test this app way back in the summer, and at the time was the only way I could capture video on my iPhone without jailbreaking it.  At the time the app had a few issues, but these have been ironed out in this public release, but now that Apple have relaxed their approval process, this is just one of many apps that let you motion capture on your iPhone or iPhone 3G, but don't expect real video capture.

Over the Christmas period I will be comparing this app against others in this category, so stay tuned, but if you are looking for a quick comment, then I would say "this app produces choppy results".