Facebook, the photo upload in HD arrives on Android

Who uses Facebook on desktop or iPhone knows that you can upload high-resolution pictures. It is one more chance given to users who do not use a consumer connections and can abuse their tariff plan, or who uses an internet connection on the fixed network. The functionality is not yet present on Android, or at least it was not until the last few hours. In recent weeks, in fact Facebook has also introduced the official client for download on Google Play.

While uploading photos in HD is present on the client function is not yet enabled for all users. The company began to carry out the roll-out of the feature server side but at the time of writing is not enough to install the latest version to receive it. The novelty was discovered last Friday on the latest version of Facebook downloaded from the official Google Play Store (v68.0.0.37.59), but to date none of our smartphones we have seen the active feature.

During tests conducted, Jacob Long Android Police has been able to verify that the loading of pictures in HD occurs on Android with the same approach that the social network adopts desktop. The image is still scaled and compressed, but at a higher resolution than the standard load and with a compression less "heavy". The image has thus a long side of a maximum of 2048 pixels and AP tests went from a weight of about 6MB 450kb.

In comparison with the same image loaded with the standard mode has produced, in the foreign site test, a significantly lower quality file with a long side of 960 pixels and weighs only 58kb. The HD files also use the sRGB color profile, more articulate than the C2 used for uploads in standard definition, which handles the colors in a decidedly more aggressive to optimize and reduce the possible file size.

The novelty does not require any updates or user interaction, since it seems that the first users have received without performing operations on the smartphone. To activate it will think the same Facebook through an update server side, although the company has not yet announced the timing of the completion of the distribution of the feature for all users.