Woohoo! This seems to fix the issue with large contact photos (from your iPhone) being resized down to tiny 48x48 icons by Google Sync. As far as I know, there wasn't any way around that when syncing via Exchange.

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/mobil...

http://superuser.com/questions/40437/editing-contact-in-gmai...

http://productforums.google.com/forum/#!category-topic/gmail...