Smart phones are displacing cameras as the devices used to take photos uploaded to Flickr, data from Flickr indicates. In fact, the iPhone 4 might soon become the single most-popular device used to take photos uploaded to the site.
The data in all likelihood understates use of smart phones, though. The graphs, Flickr says, are only accurate to the extent that Flickr can automatically detect the camera used to take the photo or shoot the video (something possible about two thirds of the time). Since that is not always possible with camera phones, therefore they are under-represented, Flickr says. In other words, the Apple iPhone 4 might already have become the most-used device.
There's another interesting angle here, namely the connection between social software and e-commerce. Since Flickr is tracking the devices used to take photos, it also can become a site where potential camera buyers can find out what devices other people are using, and get links to information, or buy those devices.
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