I saw this earlier for a second on RIM’s website and then it disappeared. Luckily Google Reader managed to catch the headline and a few lines of text. RIM posted an article in their Knowledge Base titled “Discontinuation of Flickr Uploader for BlackBerry Smartphones.” Now the link heads to a “You are not authorized to access this document” link but here is the first few lines of the article:
As of March 1st, 2011, BlackBerry smartphone users will not be able to download or use the Flickr Uploader for BlackBerry smartphones to wirelessly upload images from a…
It looks like we might be seeing the end of the Flickr app from RIM. Kind of sad since there is no really viable 3rd party replacement and I am still pissed that RIM scrapped their Picasa app. The writing was on the wall for the Flickr app since it did not support the BlackBerry 9800 and according to App World has not been updated since May of 2009.
Still its a damn shame to see RIM drop a social app like Flickr. I just wish they would replace it with an app that would have plugins and the ability to upload pictures to all the photo sharing sites…
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