Flickr on Your iPhone: New Optimized Site for Photos
A lot of the news lately has been focused on iPhone apps, but impressive mobile sites are also available and optimized for the iPhone.
The new mobile site on Flickr is focused toward iPhone user with a typically, slick and highly usable Flickr interface. Now if you could easily take your iPhone cameraphone pictures and send them to Flickr easily, that would be perfect.
CNET reviewed the new Flickr site today and points out a great feature which is automatically scaling of photos. One drawback is that you can’t currently navigate between different sizes of the photos on the mobile site. We suggest a work around which is to go to “www.flickr.com” (the main site) rather than the iPhone site “m.flickr.com” if you really want the different sizes.
We like the navigation capabilities that are available when you view individual photos on the iPhone-optimized mobile site. Next to a larger thumbnail of your photo are two smaller thumbnails showing you the next and previous image in the photostream that you are viewing with arrows overlayed on each of the images. If only AT&T’s Edge network would bring the images down a bit faster, we’d love it. Still, this is a great new way to access your photos.
As CNET points out, since the iPhone doesn’t support Flash yet, you can’t view slideshows – you’ll need to view “Sets” instead.
We also like the ability to navigate comments on photos. The usability of Flickr’s “www” site is reflected in the execution of the new mobile design. Make sure to check it out if you like looking at photos – or you need to a place to store yours.
October 3, 2008 – 10:11 am