Flickr is an online photo service that allows you to share, tag, and view photos. After reading our Camera Phone Contest post, one of our readers asked us an interesting question:
How Do You Upload Your Pictures from the iPhone to Flickr?
The Short Answer is: It depends on what you want to upload.
The Long Answer: For some bizarre reason, Flickr hasn’t released a native app for the iPhone. I say bizarre because it’s the most popular camera phone on Flickr and has been for a while, so you would think they would support it. So what’s a distraught Flickr user to do? There are a few options, depending on the resolution you need to be available. Note that we’re not going to discuss the various Flickr apps available for the iPhone, as limitations within the iPhone OS prevent them all from uploading at full resolution.
Option 1: email from the iPhone.
Pros: Quick and Easy
Cons: iPhone automatically reduces resolution of the picture.
Flickr has a slightly hidden send pictures by email feature, located here [you need to be logged in to your flickr/yahoo account]. There’s an excellent tutorial on the whole process located here. Then, once you’ve got that set up, you simply send pictures as email from your iPhone. This works great as long as you don’t need high resolution right away. A good example would be pictures that need to be uploaded now – robberies in progress, police brutality, etc. If you need high resolution, read on.
Option 2: Jailbreak your iPhone and install Send Pics.
Pros: Works.
Cons: Not worth bricking the iPhone.
If you can support 3rd party apps, download Send Pics, which effectively removes the resolution limit on sending pictures via email. It’s the only method we currently know of that allows sending full resolution pictures from the iPhone to any service, let alone Flickr.
Option 3: The Old Fashioned Way
Pros: Works
Cons: What’s the point of a camera in the iPhone?
Take your iPhone home, connect it to your computer, and upload the photos. Simple, easy, ridiculous. Apple went through all this trouble and neither them nor Flickr can support uploading Full Resolution photos out of the box? Steve Jobs Loses 10 Points on this one, folks.
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