The iPhone OS 2.2 has landed and it is time for all the geeks to poke around trying to find bugs (and given the history of iPhone bugs, they are not hard to find). The latest on the table is the image saving bug, which has a problem saving images larger than the iPhone screen resolution.
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Using the tap-and-hold to save image function of the iPhone, saving an image larger than 320x480 pixels results in a totally blurry image saved in your Camera Roll. However, transferring that image from your camera roll to your iPhoto Library will show you the proper crisp image, as it was supposed to be.
As it turns out, the iPhone simply displays a thumbnail version of the image, at a resolution of 120x90 pixels, while the original is still stored on the iPhone disk. And while actions like setting it as a wallpaper or setting it as a contact picture will still show a blurry image, any other app (like a twitter client for instance) will get hold of the full resolution image. The only way to get the full resolution image displayed by the built in iPhone functions, is to transfer it back to your iPhone using iPhoto.
It is only possible that we’ll be seeing a 2.2.1 version out soon. Although I don’t know how many times they can correct their errors. They did after all, slip in a silent update to this very v2.2 when they accidentally mispelled “Catagories” in the App Store.
How did your 2.2 upgrade go? Let us know if you found any bugs of interest.
