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Flickr App Pops into App Store

Tuesday September 8, 2009 7:42 am PDT by Marianne Schultz


Yahoo's Flickr service now has a native app available in the App Store. We recently reported that the iPhone had become the most popular cell phone camera used to upload photos to the image sharing site and it's likely this new native app will only increase its popularity among Flickr users.



When you first sign in to the Flickr app, you are required to authorize the app to use your Flickr account, which is done through Safari on the iPhone. After this, uploads to your Flickr account will be handled directly through the app with no further authorization requests.



The app can geotag your photos and offers immediate access to your recent uploads, your entire Flickr stream, and those of your Flickr contacts.

The Flickr app is free and can be found here (link opens iTunes).
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batchtaster
Posted: 35 months ago
US Store only. That's piss-poor.
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Fafafoooey
Posted: 35 months ago
As I said!
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Michael73
Posted: 35 months ago
I'm not a Flickr user so I have a question...

When you upload a picture, does it upload in full resolution or does it further compress them?

What I have in the back of my mind is whether I could use Flickr like iDisk by uploading pictures in full resolution to Flickr and then when I get home downloading them to my Mac.
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CrackedButter
Posted: 35 months ago
Download fine here in the UK and I'm using it. What you talking about US only?
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stellarceltic
Posted: 35 months ago

We recently reported that the iPhone had become the most popular cell phone camera used to upload photos to the image sharing site.


Sure... when you seperate the Canon EOS Digital Rebel models, and combine all iPhone models.
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chimerical
Posted: 35 months ago
Side note, the Yahoo! Finance and Yahoo! Fantasy Football apps for the iPhone OS are also out today.
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Keyhole
Posted: 35 months ago

Sure... when you seperate the Canon EOS Digital Rebel models, and combine all iPhone models.


:confused: Canon came out with a mobile phone?
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Otaviano
Posted: 35 months ago

US Store only. That's piss-poor.


Not available in the Swedish store :(
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sneeks
Posted: 35 months ago
Downloaded and installed from the UK store. Great app.
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abbstrack
Posted: 35 months ago
the app has potential, but still needs work. the UI is nice, but as a mobileFoto user for the better part of the last year, there are 2 things that struck me as odd on the Flickr app:

1) I dont have access to all my sets. As a working photographer I typically use Flickr to have mobile access to all my post-edited shoots, which I organize/arrange into sets. The Flickr app loads up the most recent 52 sets, but nothing beyond there. I'm hoping this is a bug that will be fixed rather than a limitation. On mobilefotos i am not limited with the amount of sets I can access.

2) ability to save photos to your photo library or as wallpaper is missing. i would assume this is something that will be coming in a later update hopefully

aside from those 2, i like the interface, and while to me the 2nd isnt that important, it is important that I be able to access all my sets. having paid for mobilefotos already i dont see myself discarding/discontinuing use any time soon, but it would be nice if i had this option in the flickr app as well
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