How To: Upload Photos to Flickr From Your Nokia Nseries Phone With Three Clicks
Make standalone digital cameras jealous by sending pictures taken from your Nokia Nseries phone directly to Flickr in just three button presses. I’ll show you how simple it is to set up Nokia Share Online 3.0 on your mobile phone for the three-click upload.
Nokia calls it one-click upload, but that is clearly not true. It is also not true when Ricky Cadden wrote that it took a “minimum of 7 clicks” when he criticized Share Online 3.0 for graduating prematurely from beta.
The Setup
First, you need to download and install Nokia Share Online 3.0 if you have an outdated version.
To begin setup, click on the Share Online icon in the Applications folder. If you can’t see it, go to the Gallery and select Images & video > Options > Open Online Service.
Next, select Flickr Ready for activation and click Yes to activate the service.
When your browser opens, Sign in to Flickr with your Flickr/Yahoo! ID.
Click on Ok,I’ll allow it to confirm that you want Share Online to access your account.
Go back to the main Share Online menu and click options > Set as default. The setup is now complete.
The Three Clicks
After taking a picture, a few icons show up on the right. Click down twice to the globe icon then click to upload the photo to Flickr!
This is what you see after taking a picture.
Click on Post to Flickr for instant upload.
When the upload is done, you’ll get a message that it was posted. No tags will be applied and the default title is the date. Here is the photographed Nokia N95 8GB uploaded to Flickr.
Another Option
There are third-party applications that lets you do the same thing. A very popular one is Shozu that is also worth checking out. It’s even got a automatic photo upload after shooting that I previously wrote a guide on.
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Bernd Bindreiter on 17 April 2008:
you can even install Nokia’s Location Tagger and after you’ve taken a picture and gps is available the exif header of the file becomes tagged with your current coordinates. waiting for that tagging before clicking “Post to Flickr” for instant upload will show the geo-position of the picture on flickr also!
example?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hv23/2358832207/
Ricky on 17 April 2008:
To be fair, I was testing with an N95-3 with the latest firmware, which does not have that little upload icon.
Mr. Gunn on 17 April 2008:
If they’re not supporting tagging in the app it’s less than useless. I’ll keep uploading via gallery integration, at least that way I can add a title and tags.
Bernd Bindreiter on 17 April 2008:
Mr. Gunn,
tagging within the application is also possible.
only if you click the photo-icon in the camera application will upload the picture immediately (with date as title and without any tags).
Mark Guim on 17 April 2008:
@Mr gunn you can add tags/titles through gallery too, but this guide was supposed to tell you how to do it immediately. Adding tags/titles will take more than three clicks.
Noah on 18 April 2008:
Hear hear, Ricky. Having that 1-click default only works with the latest of firmwares, something our N95-3s still don’t have.
Al Pavangkanan on 19 April 2008:
I think Mark’s method would be useful for Ovi uploads.
For flickr, there’s a quicker method.
Yahoo made an app called Zonetag. Website here:
http://zonetag.research.yahoo.com/
It a pretty neat app. It uses cell towers as well as GPS for location and offers suggested tags.
It also features 1 click uploads. You take a picture and zonetag will ask you “post to flickr?” Left soft key for yes, right soft key for no.