We all cherish photos. They capture life’s moments and emotions, from smiling friends to world events– In the past few years, we’ve captured even more of those spontaneous moments through the widespread addition of cameras to our mobile phones.

Today we’re introducing new global additions to Flickr’s mobile portfolio across Android, iPhone and iPad devices that make it even easier for you to share your life in photos anytime, anywhere.  These new additions build on Yahoo! and Flickr’s continued focus on creating experiences around sharing and communicating on every screen –PC, mobile phone, tablet, and even TV.

Bring Images to Life on Android Devices

Making its debut on the Android Market, the new Flickr Android App allows you to beautifully capture, customize, edit, and share high-quality photos on the go, directly from your device. You can:

• Shoot & share: Before taking a photo, adjust your camera settings on the Flickr app with functions like flash, ratio selection, and shutter focus. Then start snapping and capture beautiful, hi-res images with the app’s innovative, built-in shoot & share camera that you can view anywhere.
• Release the inner artist in you: Pick from 10 high-quality filters to customize your photos, automatically upload your images to Flickr, and share instantly to Twitter, Facebook, and Tumblr.
• Stay up to date on all your photos: Whether you have 20 photos or 20,000, scroll through all your photos by simply swiping across the screen and touching the image to view it in full screen or slideshow mode.
• Stay in control: Manage your privacy settings directly from your phone and choose who can download your images.
• Be a part of Flickr: As a Flickr member you get instant access all the great features on Flickr.com, including powerful organizational tools, community groups, fun third-party apps, and so much more.

Live Sharing Made Easy

Remember how you used to flip through a photo album and bring your images to life by your narration? Well, now you can have that experience wherever you and your loved ones are using your iPhone, iPad or PC. Originally created at a Yahoo! Hack Day, Photo Session from Flickr takes photo sharing to the next level by allowing you and small groups of family and friends to interact with, discuss via chat, and draw on your Flickr photos in real time. With Photo Session from Flickr, you can

• Get started quickly: Begin a Photo Session by selecting any public set or photostream and inviting your friends to view with you.
• Share instantly with friends: Enjoy real-time sharing with up to 10 people at a time and get their reactions immediately.
• Browse, chat, and sketch: Seamlessly flip through images as you doodle on your photos with the drawing tool and chat with each other, all at the same time. You can also pause or scroll through the photos at your own pace.

Just got back from your African safari? Invite your friends to a Photo Session and inspire wanderlust in one and all.  It’s a girl? Congrats! The whole family is dying to meet her.  So set up a Photo Session to show off the latest pics of your newest member of the family and fill them in on every gurgle.

Check out the Photo Session experience:

As a leading brand in mobile, Yahoo! is committed to making sure that Flickr users have the richest, most engaging experiences on every device. And we know you love your camera phones – the iPhone 4 is the most popular camera in the Flickr community, after all. So check out these new additions and keep snapping. Your best moments are out there just waiting to be captured!

Markus Spiering
Head of Product, Flickr