iPhone is the most popular cameraphone on Flickr

IPhone overtakes others

When people get a new phone they tend to play with its features more then steadily the number of uses drops off, all of the other phones in your usage chart from flickr show this behaviour.

I'm sure that within a few months the number of images from the iPhone showing up on flickr will drop dramatically as people quickly reach the limitations of the built in 2MP camera.

I think what this discounts

I think what this discounts is the fact there are still many many more camera phones that do not embed EXIF data into their photos.

Without that EXIF data, there is no way Flickr would know what produced that photo. Hence it won't get picked up by this chart.

For example, I own an i-mate SP5 smartphone with a 1.3megapixel camera. I do post pictures onto Flickr, but it doesn't register because it doesn't save EXIF data.

Not to say the iPhone isn't an impressive device, it is. It's just saying that it's the most popular on Flickr given other factors is a bit misleading, don't ya think?

You're looking at it from

You're looking at it from the perspective. It's the most popular because it's the only model available. Sony Ericsson, Nokia, and Samsung have tons of cameraphones, hence the numbers are probably not as high. But when start counting by brand (meaning all SE cameraphones, all Nokia camerphones, all Samsung cameraphones), then the iPhone is like a little insect trying to wiggle its way into the cameraphone world.

And the news here is???

As the iPhone is largely as US focussed product (it doesn't sell nearly as well in Europe) and flickr is a US dominated site (and probably geek dominated too) is it any suprise the the number of iPhone pictures on flickr has risen?

So Why The Dip in the Graph

What does the huge dip in the graph signify and how long does this graph span over... It could be a week with a quiet Sunday or it could be a 24hr period with a dip when peple go to sleep.... can you clarify please.