<p>Many people use the image and video hosting site Flickr to upload and store photos taken by their cameras and smartphones. The site also gathers user equipment statistics and makes the data public. For example, of the top 10 cameras used by the Flickr community, Apple's iPhones are ranked third, while three of the 10 spots are occupied by other smartphones.</p><p>Photos on Flickr taken with various iPhone models alone total over 250 million, proof positive that the smartphone is the default camera of people around the globe.</p><p>But there seems to be a downside to this phenomenon. As taking snapshots on the fly and sharing them on social networks become instantaneous, most digital photos end up as Internet flotsam, with smartphones serving as de facto albums. We may be taking more photos, but we rarely take the effort to have them printed and archived in photo albums.</p><p>PHOTO printed with with the Pocket Photo. Photo by Tatin Yang</p><p><a href="http://lifestyle.inquirer.net/130755/instant-photo-fun">Keep reading...</a></p>