 Hi, this is Sam with The Verge and today we're going to take a look at the new Flickr app for Playstation Vita which hit the Japanese PSN store today. As you can see it gets added to the home screen just like any other application and tapping the icon will bring up its live area. Live areas are kind of like the splash screen for Playstation Vita apps. Every app has one, like you can swipe between them and this is the one for Uncharted for example. The Flickr one is pretty barren, there's only two options. There's this Today's Explored button which takes you to something kind of random from the day in Flickr and there's just a start button. So let's go with the start button and get into the main application. There's a short load screen that comes up before we get to the main interface and here we are. So the interface kind of works from top to bottom with all the different functions of Flickr and when you get to a bar you can scroll from left to right to sort of load all the photos. You can actually change the order of these by going to the layout setting at the bottom. So let's say if I wanted the explore function to be at the top I would just drag it up here and there you go. So here we have it. There's not too many surprises here, it's all pretty much standard features from Flickr itself. You've got your uploads, your friends lists, your history, your contacts, everything and your own photo stream, your sets. Let's check out the search function. So let's type, I don't know, let's go with Tokyo. We should get a list of pictures from Tokyo coming up here. You can see the loading of these thumbnails isn't super quick. I'm on wifi so it should be a little faster but it's not too bad. And the thumbnails themselves are a little bit compressed but if you actually load the picture itself after a while it should look pretty good. So it kind of comes up in a half screen with all the information on the right and tapping it brings up the full photo on the screen. And it does actually look really good on the Vita screen. So let's go back. What else do we have? So of course one more thing about the Vita is that it is itself a camera, right? There's this front facing camera here and of course the back facing camera on the back. So it's not a great camera but it is a camera so it's nice that Flickr has its own upload feature integrated into the app. So let's give this a go. If I tap the camera app, so it brings up the camera and if I select the front facing one here. What do we do? It's a flipped image of my business card. Do I want to use this image? Sure, why not? So I'll tap this and here it kind of gets loaded into the app. And after a delay I should be able to tap it. So here it is here and there's the upload icon here. So if I tap the upload. Uploading complete. If I go to my recent uploads. Yep there you go, you'll see it right there. So now I've uploaded a picture on Flickr direct from my PlayStation Vita. And there you have it, this is the Flickr app for PS Vita.
 Hi, this is Sam with The Verge and today we're going to take a look at the new Flickr app
 for Playstation Vita which hit the Japanese PSN store today.
 As you can see it gets added to the home screen just like any other application and tapping
 the icon will bring up its live area.
 Live areas are kind of like the splash screen for Playstation Vita apps.
 Every app has one, like you can swipe between them and this is the one for Uncharted for
 example.
 The Flickr one is pretty barren, there's only two options.
 There's this Today's Explored button which takes you to something kind of random from
 the day in Flickr and there's just a start button.
 So let's go with the start button and get into the main application.
 There's a short load screen that comes up before we get to the main interface and here
 we are.
 So the interface kind of works from top to bottom with all the different functions of
 Flickr and when you get to a bar you can scroll from left to right to sort of load all the
 photos.
 You can actually change the order of these by going to the layout setting at the bottom.
 So let's say if I wanted the explore function to be at the top I would just drag it up here
 and there you go.
 So here we have it.
 There's not too many surprises here, it's all pretty much standard features from Flickr
 itself.
 You've got your uploads, your friends lists, your history, your contacts, everything and
 your own photo stream, your sets.
 Let's check out the search function.
 So let's type, I don't know, let's go with Tokyo.
 We should get a list of pictures from Tokyo coming up here.
 You can see the loading of these thumbnails isn't super quick.
 I'm on wifi so it should be a little faster but it's not too bad.
 And the thumbnails themselves are a little bit compressed but if you actually load the
 picture itself after a while it should look pretty good.
 So it kind of comes up in a half screen with all the information on the right and tapping
 it brings up the full photo on the screen.
 And it does actually look really good on the Vita screen.
 So let's go back.
 What else do we have?
 So of course one more thing about the Vita is that it is itself a camera, right?
 There's this front facing camera here and of course the back facing camera on the back.
 So it's not a great camera but it is a camera so it's nice that Flickr has its own upload
 feature integrated into the app.
 So let's give this a go.
 If I tap the camera app, so it brings up the camera and if I select the front facing one
 here.
 What do we do?
 It's a flipped image of my business card.
 Do I want to use this image?
 Sure, why not?
 So I'll tap this and here it kind of gets loaded into the app.
 And after a delay I should be able to tap it.
 So here it is here and there's the upload icon here.
 So if I tap the upload.
 Uploading complete.
 If I go to my recent uploads.
 Yep there you go, you'll see it right there.
 So now I've uploaded a picture on Flickr direct from my PlayStation Vita.
 And there you have it, this is the Flickr app for PS Vita.