I captured some video from tonight’s LiveFreeLiveLoud concert. The NewSpring band played. Folks gave over $17,000 to three local charities. NewSpring is going to double that amount. Here are a portion of the fireworks that concluded the evening festivities.

Here’s what’s amazing about the video. I captured it all from my Samsung Blackjack cell phone. Using Qik, I was able to live-stream the video. Though the live experience was very choppy because of my slow cell connection (not on the 3G network here), the recorded versions aren’t bad.

Now…here’s the sad news. The fancy new iPhones that are coming out in a couple of weeks won’t be able to do this. Why? Because they aren’t going to have video cameras built in. Just one more reason why I’m probably going to wait for the new Google Phone before I jump ship from my Blackjack.