Sharing photos with Flickr Mobile

It’s one of the world’s most popular websites and millions of people upload their latest photos to it every day. With the power of mobile phone cameras increasing with every new release, flickr.com has gone mobile.

Using Flickr Mobile (m.flickr.com) there’s no need to download your photos from phone to PC before putting them online, just upload them to your existing online albums straight from your mobile phone.

Non-users can search through Flickr’s huge image bank without having to sign in, and can search by the text that accompanies a photo or by the keyword-style tags that the uploader has applied. Search results are listed in order of relevance, but can also be viewed with the most recent or even the most interesting – calculated according to numbers of views, notes and comments - first.

But of course it’s by registering at www.flickr.com that you get the real benefits of the site.

Registered users will be familiar with the options offered by Flickr Mobile. Once you’ve logged in (and unfortunately this can be difficult on the Nokia 6280, see Login problems), you can browse through your own photos, view the latest images uploaded by your contacts and leave comments on any photo on the site.

Best of all, you can upload photos taken on your mobile’s camera straight to Flickr, so photos you take on holiday or on nights out could be online within seconds. The process is easy, although the maximum image size is a lowly 300kb, so you won’t be able to use the Nokia 6280’s 2-megapixel setting to its full potential, and while you’ll be able to use images taken at the 1280x960 resolution, you’ll have to drop image quality to ‘Normal’ to ensure your photos stay below the 300kb limit.

Flickr has made a great transition to the mobile web, and while the service is naturally limited compared to the full version – you can’t rotate, order or add tags to photos, for instance - it meets the needs of the ‘fun photographer’ perfectly, and is ideal for sharing holiday snaps and party photos when you’re not within downloading distance of a PC.

How to upload an image and leave comments using Flickr Mobile