The HTC stock messaging app has been whacked like that for a long time. The first picture you attach is compressed and resized. Subsequent pics attached to the same message are not. I don't send pics enough to merit installing a third party app so I normally just attach a random photo, then the one I want to send is attached second, then the first attachment is deleted. The second (and now only) picture retains it's normal properties, no compression. The one caveat to that is that I've tried to attach the same picture twice in one message. It works as stated above but when I delete the first, the second one is compressed and resized. I was hoping they would address it before this baby came out, since it was going on with my EVO last year as well. Alas, I will continue to wait and be annoyed.