iPhone 4 camera most popular on Flickr

The iPhone 4 has topped charts of a different sort again - it is the most popular camera on the photo sharing website Flickr. Even though the device has a 5MP camera and is quite underwhelming when compared to other smartphones in the industry, it has surpassed the likes of the Nikon D90, Canon EOS 5D Mark II, Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi and the Canon EOS Rebel T1i.

Not only has the iPhone 4 left professional DSLRs behind, 4 out of the top 5 mobile devices used to upload photos are iOS devices. In order of ranking, these are the iPhone 4, iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, HTC Evo 4G and the iPod touch.

Flickr states "camera phones are undercounted." The photo sharing service can identify the camera used to take the photo, and are accurate 2 out of 3 times. Flickr claims to receive more than 4,800 images shot with the iPhone 4 per day, more than any other device.

However, the all time favourite camera device is the iPhone 3GS - over 35 million photos have been uploaded using this. That's the number the iPhone 4 has to beat to take the overall number one spot. Once again, Apple is it's own competition.

The original iPhone with its underwhelming 2MP camera too topped Flickr charts way back in 2008.