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Link Phanfare iPhone app is now available

I am happy to announce that the Phanfare iPhone app is now available. The Phanfare iPhone app turns your iPhone into a wireless camera. The convenience of being able to shoot photos with a device that is nearly always in your pocket and have them incorporated seamlessly into your permanent online photos albums is hard to beat. The camera on the iPhone won’t be confused with a digital SLR, but as the saying goes, the camera you have with you is always better than the camera you don’t. See a demo of the app in action.

We have focused, initially, on making the Phanfare app a great digital camera with wireless upload. But expect to see updates and improvements as we are strong believers in the importance of the iPhone as a new consumer computing platform. Getting the PC out of the loop in digital photography is the way to go.

We also continue to improve our iPhone web-based viewing experience. It is quite fast and efficient. You can get to it directly from the Phanfare iPhone camera app or browse to www.phanfare.com on your phone. It does not support video yet, but that is coming soon.

To get the new Phanfare iPhone app, just browse to the App store on your iPhone or you can download it directly to iTunes and sync it.

  • Tom
    I have found this app to be extremely buggy on my iPhone 3G. It worked the first time that I used it, then it began freezing when I tried to take pix. I lost some really good shots, so I have reverted to using the built-in "camera" app.
  • Andrew Erlichson
    The iPhone does not take video. But we will display vides on the iPhone fairly soon, as soon as we encode in h.264, which the iPhone will display.
  • Will
    I think he means that you will soon be able to VIEW videos on Phanfare using your iPhone. Currently that is not possible since Phanfare's videos are encoded into Flash files for web viewing, which the iPhone can't handle. I guess they'll be encoding videos into a file which the iPhone can handle.
  • Alan
    Andrew,

    This should be a terrific app. Can't wait to try it when I get my 3G iPhone.

    Are you saying Phanfare might provide an app soon that lets the iPhone camera take video clips?

    Alan
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