Flickr has finally launched an official application for the iPhone. There has been no shortage of third-party applications that used Flickr’s pictures, but this app matches the look and feel of Flickr much more closely than any of them.

Despite having one of the most popular online photo services in the world, Flickr forced you to use their optimized website for browsing photos and email to upload photos. Both worked, but were extremely cumbersome to use.

The new Flickr app is seamless. Upon launching the app, the user is presented with a beautiful slideshow of photos from their Flickr friends.

An easily accesible upload button is in the top right hand corner. You can name your picture, give a description, tag it and choose what set to put it in. Privacy settings are cleary displayed on the upload page as well.

The main page search functionality also works well, with thumbnails being populated rather quickly. When you click on a photo, you get a larger version loaded in a different screen that allows you to swipe left and right to move between images.

You are required to authorize the app to use your Flickr account, which is done through Safari on the iPhone. After this, uploads to your Flickr account will be handled directly through the app with no further authorization requests.

Obviously, the Flickr iPhone app requires that its user have an active Flickr account. If you do not have an account, Flickr for iPhone will launch Safari and guide you through the necessary steps for creating an account.

Download the Flickr app for Free from the AppStore. Compatible with iPhone and iPod Touch. Requires iPhone OS 3.0 or later.

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