Tuesday, November 22, 2011

iPhone 4S Now the Second Most Popular Cameraphone on Flickr

The iPhone 4S’ rebuilt 8MP camera is one of the new handset’s most talked about features — other than Siri of course. It captures sharper images with much better color in low-light situations than its predecessor did, with 60 percent more pixels.
Apple has even been touting it as a point-and-shoot camera replacement, and it seems like iPhone 4S owners agree with it. The handset has just become the second most frequently used Cameraphone on the popular photo-sharing site, Flickr….
With over 50 million members and 6 billion hosted photos to date, Flickr’s image upload data is a great way to gage a camera’s popularity. The service knows which device a photo was taken with using the image’s EXIF (Exchangeable Image File Format) information.
As you can tell from the graph, the iPhone 4S has passed up the 3G, 3GS, and the HTC Evo 4G to become the second most popular Cameraphone on the site. It sits only behind the iPhone 4, which became Flickr’s most popular camera overall earlier this year.
Apple’s been criticized in the past for being behind the megapixel curve, releasing a phone with a 3.2MP camera when the competition had 5MP and a 5MP when others had 8MP. But it hasn’t hurt the device’s popularity — the top 3 cameraphones on Flickr are all iPhones.

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