6/8/2007
Zurfer - Enhancing Flickr USe on the N95 (and other mobiles)
Spotted this on O’Reailly Radar from Brady Forrest earlier.
Zurfer is a mobile Flickr viewer that is location-aware. The prototype was developed at Yahoo’s Berkley Research Center. As Mor Naaman describes it:
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I had to go check it out. And I was pretty jazzed by what they’ve done. Zurfer lets you populate your location on your phone and browse Flickr pics from nearby. It also lets you easily looks at your contacts, groups and your own photos. This really changes how a mobile can interact with Flickr.
You have to give it a Flickr ID and set up a free ZoneTag link. Once you set it up, here’s what you get. The menu is easily configurable.
And the UI is pretty darn slick
Scroll down and there’s more
and more
You can zoom the picture size and still easily scroll.
All I can say, is if you use a Nokia S60 phone or a Motorola RAZR V3x (that’s all that are supported at the moment) and you’re a shutterbug who uses Flickr, you need to check this out. Very cool
Technorati Tags: Nokia, N95, S60, Flickr, Zurfer
Filed by Ken at 2:18 pm under General, Portable Pleasures - PDA/Smartphones
i tried it!
it was ver very slow over GPRS but usable over WIFI
sigh, wish we had usable mobile internet in Vancouver