Flickr upgrades mobile image services

User-generated image and video hosting services provider Flickr announced a series of upgrades to its m.flickr.com mobile site. Most notably, users may now view Flickr videos directly on their mobile devices--in a post on the Flickr blog, product manager Shanan Delp writes "Videos uploaded from today forward will be immediately viewable through our mobile site. As of today this particular feature is available to iPhone and iPod touch users only, but we expect to rapidly expand the number of devices that we support."

Delp adds that users may now comment on and "favorite" photos from their phones. In addition, the m.flickr.com upgrades promise to simplify the process of email photos from phones to Flickr accounts. "Over the last year we've seen an explosion of mobile devices uploading to and browsing Flickr," Delp adds. "It's rapidly becoming the norm for our members to use a camera phone to share their immediate world with others, and a mobile browser to keep track of friends and family."

For more on the Flickr upgrades:
- read this Flickr blog entry