Flickr Upgrades its Mobile Interface

Flickr has just rolled out a new mobile site, adding some significant improvements to its interface as well as adding a few new features you can now use on-the-go. Additions include video playback (on devices that support it), as well as the ability to add new contacts, favorite images, and make changes to privacy settings from m.flickr.com.

Some of these features were already available in beta to iPhone users, but Flickr indicates that with today’s launch, they’ll also be accessible on devices using other mobile browsers including Opera Mini, Firefox Mobile and Webkit.

In-line with the boom we’ve seen elsewhere in mobile usage, Flickr says that their mobile site has seen a 50% increase in users since last year. With the upgrade, the site is a fairly complete mobile version of the Web experience, building on existing options for uploading photos and seeing uploads from your friends and the Flickr community at-large.

Here’s what a couple of the new features look like:

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