Google’s Mobile Team announced today that they’ve updated the Picasa Web Albums to be iPhone-ready (by this of course I just mean designed specifically for the iPhone), making it the latest of their products to be iPhone-ified in recent weeks. It looks nice; simple, but nice. One problem, it’s still Picasa, I don’t really use it, where’s the Flickr iPhone app?

In the past week and a half Google has now updated 5 or 6 of their main apps to maximize the iPhone’s potential yet Yahoo!, as far as I know, has done none. I find this a bit odd as it seemed early on that Yahoo! was at least as big (if not bigger) of a partner with Apple on the iPhone as Google was. Flickr as is, is for the most part perfectly usable on the iPhone currently, but if you wanted to browse a lot of pictures, they’d probably be wise to implement the same type of gallery that Google has done for Picasa and Facebook previously did on their great iPhone app. A very simple way to upload right to Flickr on the iPhone would be great as well.

As I said, Picasa’s update is very nice, but I would love to see the ability to use the same Multi-Touch functions that Apple uses for their own built-in picture viewer (two-finger zoom in and out), but I’m sure that is just a Safari limitation. Perhaps when the iPhone SDK comes out in a couple months, Picasa, Facebook Pictures, and Flickr can have their own native apps that take full advantage of Multi-Touch (drool).

[story and photo via TechCrunch]