iPhone leads in Flickr cameraphone uploads
updated 03:30 pm EDT, Mon August 11, 2008
Flickr phone/camera stats
The Apple iPhone is by a wide margin the phone most used by Flickr uploaders, updated charts from the site suggest. The charts track the number of people with a particular device "who have uploaded at least one photo or video with a particular camera on a given day over the last year," according to Flickr, and show the iPhone as nearing 100 percent of site cameraphone users. Nokia's N95 has an overlapping figure of about 70 percent, but the N73, N82 and Sony Ericsson K800i are the only other phones on the list, at just over 20 percent each. The N73 and K800i are in decline, while both the iPhone and N95 are increasing in popularity.
Flickr cautions however that while the charts are normalized against increasing site membership, only phones that identify themselves can be recorded, and these are likely a minority.
In the realm of regular cameras, the three most popular compacts are variants of Canon's PowerShot series, led by the SD1000. The two most popular DSLRs are versions of Canon's Digital Rebel, while Nikon's D80 is in third place. The only professional-grade camera on the list is Canon's EOS-40D, ranked at fourth.
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useless
The charts are useless examples of statistics. There's no definition of what percentage the chart indicates (is the top really 100%, or is the range 0-20% ?). If it reads the way the article reads, can someone explain how nearly 100% of all cell phone uploads can be from the iPhone, and yet another 50% can come from other phones? Do people with iPhones really have so many other cameraphones as well?