CS5.5 iOS App Graphics Quality

Hello Adobe community,
Thanks for helping me out today. Here's my issue: I am designing my whole app in photoshop and currently in the process of moving all of the images to flash to add interactivity. The promblem is, when we put the app on the iphone the quality of the graphic is lowered for some reason.
When I am building in photoshop my settings:
640px by 960px
72 ppi
Saving out as a .jpg
When I send the jpg as a picture to my iphone 4 and view it in my "Photos" app, it looks great, but on the test app it loses quality.
Does anyone have anyone have any idea whats going on here?
Thanks,
If I left something out that could help please tell me so I can add it!
Joe Solito
StudioVictus

kglad wrote:
in flash, right click the bitmaps in the library, click properties and tick "allow smoothing".
This only worked when we tested it in flash, but when we put it out to the iphone, it didn't look any different it still had the same unsmoothed edges. So could there be a setting when publishing as an IPA file.

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