Yahoo! A first look at the official Flickr iPhone app

Is the app only available in the US? Not in Sweden, apparently.

I use m.flickr.com all the time and just use email to post my photos. Via email, the geotag is preserved and you can set your flickr preferences to automatically add it to your map.

I've stopped using most of the other Apps since I can email directly from the native photo browser and the web page is pretty nice.

My main complaints are:
- not being able to zoom
- not being able to access some features in m.flickr.com
- not being able to upload multiple photos.

(Also, I agree that the article should be written by a flickr user and written in a way that didn't invite the confused postings. There's a long history about emailing photos on the iPhone with geotags and image quality, and that was the only reason for some of these 3rd party apps to begin with. And there was no discussion of that.)

Why is the blogger without a lot of flickr experience the one reviewing a flickr app? Surely someone at TUAW is a rabid flickr user and would make a better reviewer for this app.

I'm not saying everyone needs to be experienced in every web2.0 site but flickr is extremely popular and it shouldn't be hard to pick the appropriate staff for this.

I'm getting an error when I attempt to log in to my Flickr account with this app as I type this message. The page says, "Sorry, the page you requested is temporarily unavailable. Please try again later. Yahoo! error 003. Error parsing source"

I like the app after a few minutes of trying it out. The Ken Burns treatment on the home screen photos is a nice touch, and overall it's got good fit and finish.

One part especially impressive is the authentication flow. The pass over to the browser for authentication with the web-based account is pretty standard, but the great touch was at the end when the flickr app was re-opened to complete the flow. I'd love to see apps using OAUTH do this as well, as getting users back from the browser to the initiating app is a usability problem.

Definitely a lax commenter. The Flickr app Mobile Fotos is very full-featured and uploads photos using the geotag from the place they were taken, not where they were uploaded. This alone gives me no reason to even look at the official app, if it can't duplicate this feature. I highly recommend Mobile Fotos, at least until the Flickr app matures.

Sure wish you could view a Google map based on the location of the photo... It tells me where the photo was taken, but nothing more.

No, this is a missing feature. For instance, I use a multitude of apps to modify and manipulate my iPhone photos. Sometimes the geotag information gets lost in doing that. While that may not be Flickr's problem, it would be much easier if they gave you the option of either tagging it with your current location OR allowing you to manually enter a different location. That's the missing feature.

Not lax journalism.

as someone said earlier the iPhone will geo-tag coordinates (if it can...my 1G couldn't always find a WiFi sig!).

i just tried to upload a photo 2 different ways, with the Flickr App and through email.

The Flickr app did indeed erase all that metadata while just emailing to Flickr preserved it...that's a big fail if that data matters to you....

other than that....it does upload photos

The presentation is really nice though!

Refering to the title: I see what you did there.