Friday, Flickr introduced an update for their mobile Web site that now enables users to play Flickr videos on their phones.

The Yahoo-owned site rolled out the video capability feature for m.flickr.com back in April, but the tool only allowed users to upload short videos from their cell phones, without them being able to watch the clips on the gadgets, as well.

Ever since this October, the updated mobile site has been available in beta to select iPhone users, but beginning Friday, all iPhone and iPod Touch users can enjoy the feature.

According to a Yahoo blog post, the company was working on opening the video playback app to any smartphone that supported browsers such as Webkit, Firefox Mobile and Opera Mobile.

The update to the mobile web site has also simplified access to photo albums and currently lets users add contacts and favorite images and change their privacy and permission settings through their phones.

For the time being, the only ones who can upload videos are professional subscriber members, while the length of the clips is set at a maximum of 90 seconds.

Along with the iPhone and the iPod Touch, cell phones like Nokia’s N Series, the Samsung L870 and Android-based devices will be able to access the upgraded m.flickr.com.

Flickr has stated that in 2008, the number of people who had surfed their mobile site had increased by 50 percent.

Flickr, an image and video hosting website, web services suite and online community platform, announced in November this year that it had come to host over 3 billion images.