Rogers has today made the BlackBerry Curve 8520 available for those willing to drop $99.99 with a 3-year contract.

For those of you who aren’t familiar with this phone it features an optical trackpad, preloaded Facebook, Flickr and Twitter apps, a 2.0 MP camera, quad band EDGE, stereo Bluetooth and WiFi.

So again, BlackBerry Curve 8520 available today on Rogers for $99.99 with a 3-year contract.

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Flickr, the popular company that works as a photo sharing service online, has updated the mobile version of their website and now offers support for more handsets and provides additional features as well.

With that being said, the new Flickr mobile version was made to be used with the iPhone, the G1, Samsung SGH-L870, and with all the Nokia smartphones using the S60 3rd Edition. If you’ve got any of these cellphones and use Flickr, the following functionalities are now available:

- add contact
- add favorite images
- change privacy settings
- change permission settings
- playback Flickr videos (that were uploaded starting yesterday)

Flickr Mobile Site

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How many pictures did you upload to your Flickr account today? A lot right? Would you like to do that from your phone? Well you can do it now if you are a BlackBerry hardcore user. I am pleased to tell you that Flickr and Research in Motion have reached an agreement for offering you a photo upload program which you will be using straight from your BlackBerry handset. I am surprised a bit that Flickr didn’t pitch this to Apple. Or did they get refused? (more…)

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Flickr, one of the largest online pictures gallery, happens to rate the number of pictures uploaded by any device such as a camera phone like the iPhone is.

According to the graph above, the iPhone with its 2 megapixel camera, has just surpassed the Nokia N95 (a 5 megapixel camera) and the Nokia N73. If we watch the constant raising curve it’s clear that more people have started uploading pictures to Flickr using an iPhone since it has been released. Keep in mind that every day more and more people join Flickr, so this graph is an estimate and whenever it drops down that might also symbolize a sudden burst of new accounts being open.

However as more people are joining, the graphic shows that more people are choosing the iPhone for taking more pictures which will eventually end up on Flickr for better sharing. Could this also mean that iPhone owners are joining Flickr just because they are taking so many pictures with their iPhone and they need a social sharing site?

With all this interpretation possibilities I have to remind you that getting the details about the camera phone is only available for 2/3 of all the uploads so that means the graphic isn’t 100% accurate.

I imagine that even more people will upload pictures with the iPhone when the second generation 3G cameras (notice how I don’t refer to them as phones) will arrive in June!

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