IPad Image Degradation

As professional photographer I was thinking of creating some wallpaper imagery for the iPad so I asked somebody that owns one to put some of my photos on his so I could look at them. When we did the quality was awful: you might say grainy or pixelated.
The images were originally 1024x768 which I understood to be the native resolution of the iPad. In an effort to track down where the image degradation was taking place I had him send an image back to me, once straight from Mail on the iPad and again from his web based Yahoo Mail page. The image that came back from Yahoo was fine, but the image that came back from the iPad via Mail had been reduced in size to 640x480.
The only think I could figure out is that for some reason the iPad reduced the image size which left me rather puzzled. why have a display with a resolution of 1024x768 if the device reduces images to 640x480.
What do I not understand here?

The best way to create wallpaper for the iPad is to start with an image much greater in resolution than the iPad's 1024x768. If you do that then you benefit in two ways.
First, save the image to your iPad, then go into settings, then wallpaper and then select your image in your saved photos. Since the image is large you can pinch and zoom in and out and you can move it around to recompose the image to your liking. Be sure you are satisfied with what it looks like in landscape and portrait by rotating the iPad before setting the image as your wallpaper. It will then save your zoom factor and your recompositioning of the image.
The iPad zooms into your wallpaper when viewed in portrait so as long as your stay within the resolution of your original image in that position before you save your setting then it will look tack sharp in both landscape and portrait, assuming your image was sharp to begin with.
The minimum image resolution for ipad's wallpaper is 1024x1024 if you do not wish the image to be degraded. That's fine if you are happy with the look that you get but you will not be able to pinch and zoom in without severe image degradation and you will not be able to reposition to your image the way you could with a much larger image.
I have no answer to your e-mailing issue as I am not yet using my iPad for e-mail.

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