First Look at AirMe App for iPhone

AirMe appears primarily to be a free uploader to Flickr, or optionally to their more limited photo service.

The account creation process was a bit laborious, using a clunky embedded web browser pane that asks too many questions for a service that mainly connects you to another service.

I did like, however, how they handled the Flickr authorization, embedding the web pane inside a pane to enter the 9 digit numbers that the Flickr API gives back to authorize use of the application with Flickr.

The most unique thing that AirMe appears to try to do is auto-tag your photos using your location. So it looks up your location and adds say the tag "Berkeley" and then looks up the weather and adds the tag "Cloudy". You can also set other tags you wish to use. You can also set the resolution of the photos taken by the App, up to the full resolution of the iPhone, which many other uploading Apps don't support.

When you set the resolution for the highest level it only shows a portion of the photo in the preview window, which does not seem to be movable or pinchable, though it does respect orientation correctly. Thus I wasn't to tell if the photo was properly taken because I could only see a small portion of it.

It doesn't look like AirMe takes advantage of access to your iPhone photo library, so you can only take photos with it.

The app crashed several times, even though this is suppost to be the 1.01 version. I was never able to succeed in uploading a photo, so this iPhone app is going in the trash. Hopefully they'll release a better version in the future.

Comments

[hb]

Thanks, this was a helpful review. I didn't want to give them all that info, and now I know I don't have to!