PLEASE LH, get some frickin' perspective...

1) This will work on ANY smartphone, including the millions of windows mobile phones that were in existence before apple decided to catch on.

2) Apple did not invent the touchscreen phone.

3) Lots of other mobiles have flash. Windows mobile phones run flash... Adobe has a download for it on their website and it runs native in pocket IE.

4) Before posting something as "iPhone optimized", get a little bit of a history lesson, and realize that about 10% of the smartphone market is currently iPhone. Does every incremental improvement in the useability of the iPhone, letting it catch up with other phones, have to be touted as a major breakthrough?

5) Copy/Paste.... 'nuff said.

virgilstar

I have a bug where I can press a photo in my photostream to enlarge the photo page, but I cannot seem to do this when pressing a photo within one of my sets. Instead it just hangs on the loading icon. Anyone else getting this problem? Open one of your sets and try to select a photo in it.

Ted Avery

@virgilstar: Yes, it will work on ANY smartphone, but Flickr has just modified their mobile site to be optimized for the iPhone/iPod Touch. [m.flickr.com] has been around for a while, but it looked like crap, i.e. it was optimized for ANY smartphone. Now that they have a version specifically for the iPhone and/or iPod Touch, that detects if the user is on mobile Safari, it looks much better, but if you go to the site on ANY other smartphone, it will still look like the crappy version.

DigitalOldschool

I use an iphone app called "charlie" for access to flickr via my iphone. way better. more features and it's not made by flickr folk *ahem*

At last check: m.flickr.com access is ONLY afforded to what flickr calls "Pro" members. Charlie does not impose this restriction.

Note: I am NOT the author of the Charlie app. but I am a frequent user of it.

If you are curuious it can be found in the App Store

toddkravos

@Kevin Purdy: With the iPhone hatin' that often goes on here, let me just say I love the iPhone content, so keep it up! :)

Ted Avery

This looks nice and better than the old mobile site. I was just talking w/ a friend how there isn't a perfect Flickr iPhone app. There's a handful out there for free, but none of them feel just right.

kirbypuckett

@toddkravos: I'm not a "Pro" and was able to access the site. It looks awesome. I'll check out Charlie too to see what they're offering.

furlopro27

@virgilstar: As noted by other commenters, m.flickr.com has been around, yes, but they just launched an especially AJAX-y version for iPhones.

As for the iPhone hatin', well, bookmark our no iPhones whatsoever link, or calm down.

Kevin Purdy

Anyone else getting the error where saved images from Flickr are coming up blank? Have they put a transparent overlay over the photos? Even my own photos?

stopsatgreen

@actionscripted:
You can't upload from m.flickr.com :( You could always just email to flickr to upload them.

zero1

How the hell do I add photos using the mobile version?!

actionscripted

@stopsatgreen: the overlayed "Spaceball.gif" appears to apply to any image loaded on the mobile site.

toddkravos

@toddkravos: Charlie also costs $2.99 where the new flickr mobile is free

freddiefenster

@Kevin Purdy:
Perhaps even a mention of previous m.flickr.com functionality would have relieved some of the concerns.

"Photo sharing site Flickr just activated an iPhone-scaled version of thetheir mobile site for anyone visiting m.flickr.com with a mobile Safari browser." Or something like that. :)

kftgr

@virgilstar: But I have heard iPhone is the best phone in the market. My grandmother also told me so. How come you disagree? And can you please elaborate #5 please. I didn't get it. Thanks in advance.

sisya