With the Nokia N8 still holding its title as the world’s best camera-phone and more than ninety models of Nokia camera-phone being used worldwide, more people than ever are taking photographs with their phones. To get an idea of just how many of these pictures are being taken on Nokia phones, we took a look at the stats on photo-sharing site Flickr and the results were amazing.

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With camera-phones in all our pockets these days, everyone is snapping away and uploading their photos to share them with friends and family. With so many brands and so many models available, though, we were keen to see just how popular Nokia smartphones were with budding photographers and how they compared to the many rival smartphones being used worldwide.

Popular photo-hosting site Flickr sees thousands of new photos uploaded daily and keeps detailed statistics on exactly which cameras have been used to take the photos it hosts. A quick search to see how many of these photos were taken with a Nokia phone revealed that a staggering 42,838,799 photos were snapped on a Nokia smartphone and are currently hosted on Flickr.

Comparing this to some of Nokia’s biggest rivals, we found that Nokia is by far one of the most popular brands for budding photographers. For example, photos taken on Sony Ericsson phones only account for 34,211,636 of the images on Flickr, while just 9,669,441 were taken on Blackberry phones and a paltry 3,867,358 were snapped using a Samsung camera-phone.

We already knew that Nokia handsets are among the most popular camera-phones in the world, but to see such staggering figures shows just how popular Nokia phones really are. With tens of millions of photos being snapped on Symbian phones such as the Nokia N8 and uploaded for the world to see, we’ve been re-inspired to get out and get snapping ourselves.

But which is your favourite Nokia phone for capturing your most treasured memories? Is it the world-leading Nokia N8 or do you have another favourite that you won’t go anywhere without? Why not let us know in the Comments below.