Originally Posted by dcigary:
I'm currently fighting with trying to have it all - reasonable looking Outlook contact photos along with reasonable looking Pre contact photos. My problem is two-fold - Outlook only supports 72x72 pictures, and Google only supports 96x96, and if they are any bigger they get really munged up by the transfer to Google (using gSyncit) and by the time they get to the phone they look like total crap. Any suggestions there? What happens if I update my phone contacts to have a 320x320 photo and the contacts sync up to Google? This is all so very frustrating!
Originally Posted by dcigary:
Yup, as I suspected, as soon as you sync up to Google and then to Outlook, it mungs the photo up in Outlook. (sigh) Who said Synergy was going to be easy again?
I understand how you feel; I previously had the Motorola Q9c on Windows Mobile syncing my contacts with Outlook. I spent a good several hours creating contact photos for my closest family and friends at 96x72 (check your outlook compatibility, I'm pretty sure outlook can handle up to 96 pixels vertically). Switching to the Pre, I transferred all of my Outlook contacts to GMail (and ditched Outlook) and pondered re-doing my contact photos in 96x96, but was unsatisfied with the quality of the google contact photos on my Pre. Now it's 320x320.
The biggest downside to this is what you've identified; when syncing with Gmail/Google the contact picture gets very ugly. I suppose it's the reality of trying to get the same photo in three significantly different resolutions, although I'm sure if I had control of the resampling process, I could make things look much better.
Ultimately, I decided that I'd rather have nice, clear photos on my Pre more than on my Google Contacts, but we shall see...
Originally Posted by robot123:
I would imagine that the ideal size would be 288x288 then? That is the lowest common multiple of both 72 and 96....
Wouldn't work, must be at least 320x320. You could try a higher common multiple, but I'm betting against it working. I'll try a little later though...
Originally Posted by algee650:
Thanks for sharing! Funny thing I just updated a friends pic last night.
The contacts (and pics) imported from Facebook actually fill up my screen more so than just assigning a pic from my phone.
Any ideas why?
Take a screen shot of your Pre (Orange + ^ + P) and show us?