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iPhone and Image Attachment save quality

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Bulldog321

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I successfully downloaded firmware 2.0 for 1st gen iPhone. I noticed that when I save an image from an e-mail, the quality is significantly downgraded. Looking at the e-mail, the image looks to be full quality, but when I save it to Photos, the image looks highly compressed.

Anyone else notice this?
 
can someone confirm this. I'm waiting out until the servers are back online 100% before upgrading to 2.0...

Can someone visit my mobile wallpaper site, download a wallpaper and tell me if the quality is decreased as well? Thanks in advance.
 
TurboSC said:
can someone confirm this. I'm waiting out until the servers are back online 100% before upgrading to 2.0...

Can someone visit my mobile wallpaper site, download a wallpaper and tell me if the quality is decreased as well? Thanks in advance.
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I confirmed it myself. In my original e-mail the picture was around 1.8mb. I save it to my iphone and then re-mailed the photo back to another e-mail account. The image became 7kb! Huge loss in quality.
 
wow. that's quite a big chunk, I wasn't expecting it to be THAT horrid... especially now with 3G, you'd think even the EDGE network could handle something more than 1mb fairly quickly. 🙄
 
TurboSC said:
wow. that's quite a big chunk, I wasn't expecting it to be THAT horrid... especially now with 3G, you'd think even the EDGE network could handle something more than 1mb fairly quickly. 🙄
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What really confuses me is that even on the edge network it is downloading the 1.8mb photo attachment just fine. But saving it from the e-mail to the photo gallery causes the compression. However, if I just save the e-mail, then I will have the full resolution photo.

Just don't understand why the operating system is compressing the picture just to transfer it from the e-mail folder to the photo album.
 
when I saved a picture that was optimized for wallpaper the quality seemed to be really good. I also saved one from flickr that was smaller on the site and when i checked my camera roll it was resized to wallpaper size and was very good quality also
 
woodtrain54 said:
when I saved a picture that was optimized for wallpaper the quality seemed to be really good. I also saved one from flickr that was smaller on the site and when i checked my camera roll it was resized to wallpaper size and was very good quality also
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I noticed the same thing too. It appears at least with my iphone, that saving images that were attachments to an e-mail is where the compression is taking place.
 
Grrrr

I'm struggling too, developing a site that has some wallpaper images to download on the iPhone optimized version of the site, but images look horrendous!!!

Apple, please correct this, this is ridiculous!
 
When I save pictures from safari the image quality is pretty good, but when I save form email it is horrid.
 
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