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A comment on Kicksend (YC S11) iPhone app - send up to 30 full-quality images at once over 3G. Parent comment

Re:Kicksend (YC S11) iPhone app - send up to 30 full-quality... by indiecore on Wednesday February 29, 2012 @09:26PM (#3650673)
Make the app zip and unzip the pictures automagically, tell people that it'll use less bandwidth than email?
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Re:Kicksend (YC S11) iPhone app - send up to 30 full-quality... by elithrar on Thursday March 01, 2012 @12:07AM (#3651009)
> Make the app zip and unzip the pictures automagically, tell people that it'll use less bandwidth than email?

It's worth stating that zipping/gzipping JPEG's (the most common camera phone file format) nets almost no benefit as JPEG's are already compressed.

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