Gmail, recently, allows large contact photos.
When syncing from Google Contacts to Outlook 2007, the images sync.
Also on Android Phone the images of contacts are good and big.
But, if I change something on Outlook, like birth date, on next sync, the smaller size photo syncs back to gmail.
Finally, when the image returns to the phone, it is very poor.
Currently it is not possible to separate changes at Outlook side in order to check what field was changed: was it birthday date or photo. Therefore photo from Outlook is synchronized back to Gmail. To change this behaviour additional functionality needs to be added to app, therefore moving this ticket to Feature Requests
Ticket moved from /p/googlesyncmod/bugs/1007/
new option to disable photo sync will be available in upcoming versino 4.1.32