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I don't want iPhone to compress photos synced FROM computer.

I am transferring pictures to my iPhone, and they end up roughly 5x smaller than on my computer. Original is 500K, on iPhone it ends up 100K.
I could not find any setting that says "don't shrink them" or so...

Thanks

macbook pro, Mac OS X (10.6.2)

Posted on Mar 5, 2010 5:31 PM

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User profile for user: roaminggnome
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Posted on Mar 5, 2010 5:39 PM

Sorry, this is the way it is.

The iphone is not a storage device. It merely allows you to view the pics that are stored on your computer, so it sync them in a size and quality that is optimal for viewing on iphone.
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Mar 8, 2010 7:22 PM in response to Inteq

Thanks, I tried yahoo. I see the attachments as full size in my yahoo mail on my iPhone. I see them in my POP3 too, but of course no size info.
I think that was the last straw. No more iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad for me 🙂 When I make a movie on the i-Thing on my computer, I have many options and I decide how to optimize the movie. I cannot believe they adopted this stupid behind-the-scenes approach with pictures.
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User profile for user: Inteq
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Mar 9, 2010 3:24 PM in response to unixnerd09

Lawrence, you are right. But, are there any phones that "optimize" photos made by the same device? Hope not 🙂
Ex: Copy the images from IPhone to computer.
Want to upload to IPhone again. (let's say you deleted them by mistake)
Guess what: stupid iTunes will "optimize" your IPhone made images and on top, will screw their orientation also :))
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User profile for user: Dave Hutch
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Mar 10, 2010 4:21 AM in response to Inteq

I had a search around and couldn't find anything, but does naybody else know of a 3rd party app that will let you transfer photos over wi-fi and show them as a nice full screen slideshow type view?
It can even swipe if necessary, not worried about it being an auto slide show
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