California mobile video company Qik announced on Sunday that it has released version 1.0 of Qik for BlackBerry. It is a free, downloadable application that allows cell phone filmmakers stream video live from their mobile phone to Qik.com, social networks like MySpace, Facebook and to any personal blog. Furthermore, Qik also plays a post-production role by auto-publishing the recorded video stream to YouTube or Seismic. Of course, a user can turn the feature off before or during the stream.

Qik’s application is only available for BlackBerry Pearl 8120 and 8130, and for the BlackBerry Bold. In the future, Qik plans to launch an application valid for the BlackBerry Pearl Flip and the Curve. One of Qik’s features will be absent from all BlackBerry models: the ability to exchange messages between viewers of the video streams. In Qik, the incoming instant message lays over the video, something that hasn’t been built for the BlackBerry platform. Today, only a few lucky BlackBerry users get to test Qik functionality for themselves. Those BlackBerry who carry the supported handsets and are interested in testing the alpha software can visit Qik.com to download the application.

With this inclusion of the BlackBerry platform, Qik is now present into six major phone manufacturers, including the iPhone, many HTC with Windows Mobile and Symbian-revved Nokia handsets. Even though Qik is present in the iPhone, it only works well under jailbroken phones. As for its presence in the app store, it’s not yet known if Apple will allow it on its store. The new Android phone, Google, HTC, and T-Mobile’s G1 is also missing out on Qik support.