"We are planning shortly after the iPhone launch to bring the experience also on Android - a consistent experience that feels natural and native to the platform," he said. For example, 3,817 Flickr users uploaded 62,839 images yesterday taken with an iPhone 4S. "We're doing iPhone in this case first, because it's the most popular camera on Flickr now," Spiering said. The iPhone app will be joined by apps for other devices, Spiering added. The uploading process lets you add title, caption, and location details. You can also take photos with some detailed camera controls for exposure, focus, and straightening. For example, one lets you browse photos from your contacts and groups another is for discovering photos that are interesting or were taken nearby and another is for delving into an individual's photo stream. Tabs at the bottom of the app's screen let you navigate among different sections to reach Flickr services. Tapping an information button virtually flips over the photo to show where it was taken, what groups and sets it belongs to, and other details. Looking at an individual photo's page, you can read and write comments, double-tap to mark it as a favorite, and rotate the phone to landscape orientation to see a high-resolution full-screen version. Scrolling vertically shows recent photos posted by Flickr members' contacts if you want to see more from a particular contact, you can scroll horizontally from an image. The new Flickr app of course puts photos front and center. She expects eventually that more than half of Yahoo's tech staff will work on mobile. Improving mobile access to Yahoo is a priority under new Chief Executive Marissa Mayer, who yesterday announced new Yahoo Mail mobile apps herself.
"It really brings Flickr into the palm of your hand." "Engagement to a high percentage is happening on mobile," said Markus Spiering, head of the Flickr product at Yahoo.
Better smartphone support was critical, given how much activity has moved to mobile apps. The new app is designed to show off individual photos better, to ease sign-up for new users, to speed photo browsing, and to improve discovery. Flickr released an overhauled iPhone app today, capping a year of effort to reclaim its lost glory with software that it believes will become central rather than peripheral to using the photo-sharing site.
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