iPhone becomes number one camera used on Flickr
The Los Angeles Times reports the iPhone has surpassed Canon’s high-performance Digital Rebel XTi as the most popular camera on the image-sharing site Flickr.
The iPhone, which has a 2-megapixel camera, has been battling two other Canon cameras and the Nikon D80 for the number 2 position on Flickr for months, but recently, the iPhone shot up to number 1.
LA Times reporter Mark Milian writes, “The Rebel’s dethroning doesn’t seem to indicate a major consumer shift away from professional-quality cameras. Rather, it’s more of a shift in the battle among cellphone cameras, in favor of the iPhone, as well as a change in how people share digital photos. Apple’s smart phone has outpaced the share of user uploads compared to other camera phones. The Nokia N95 holds a distant second, followed by a couple of BlackBerry models.”
The article notes iPhone users are particularly heavy consumers of mobile Internet, at times, surpassing the amount of time they spend surfing the Web on their computers. “That could mean they’re apt to share the photos they take on more websites, rather than suggest that the phone’s camera is supplanting more powerful devices,” Milian writes.
