Live broadcast of video keeps getting easier and easier. Last week, USTREAM announced their broadcast and viewer applications for Android. Instantly, my G1 cell phone had yet another cool feature that was not there when I purchased it last year (and the next day it received step-by-step voice navigation, but that’s for another post).

The quality of the above video is obviously not broadcast quality or even YouTube quality (the USTREAM application does allow one to upload directly to YouTube, as well as to the USTREAM site). It was easy enough, however, to broadcast to the world this brief video of a youth hockey game and capture a moment that would otherwise be only a memory of the people who were at the event. If one loses connection, the video will record to the G1 phone for later uploading.

The G1 may be of so-so quality, but it is not too difficult to imagine that some camcorder manufacturer will create an Android-based camcorder that would support a live streaming application via a built-in radio (e.g. via WiFi or 3G or WiMAX). Suddenly, that several hundred thousand dollar Electronic Newsgathering van could be packed into a sub-$1,000 camcorder.