Apple to give iPhone 3GS HDR support?

By on Sep 30, 2010 at 9:45 PM
Rumor September 30, 2010

If you’re an iPhone 3GS owner, and feel shafted by your phone’s inability to take HDR photos, there still may be hope. 9to5Mac is reporting that resources in the latest iteration of the Apple’s iPhone SDK may indicate that support could be coming to the aging 3GS. The blog writes:

The iPhone 3GS is the only iPhone that is physically (hardware capabilities) able to capture HDR shots so we figure that non-Retina icon is for the 3GS not the original or 3G model. How do we know the other icon is not for the Retina Display? Apple has a very simple labeling process which places an “@2x” on image titles for the Retina Display and places nothing of that sort next to “iphone” on non-retina iPhones.

So there you have it. If you’re looking for HDR capabilities on your iPhone 3GS, and don’t feel like going the jailbreak route, your dreams may be just a software update away.

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  • Mike

    …iPod Touch 4G?

    I mean, don’t we have the same hardware as the 3GS (or better)

  • Mgl323

    Oh I would love this! Even though I already have an app to take hdr photos..It’s good to have “choices” right?

  • Norm

    God, who cares about Apple BGR? You guys need to step it up and get some DROID news from Verizon. It’s lacking this month

    • flacofromny

      seriously you want BGR to post more news from DROID and Verizon? this website been lately all about Android and verizon..I was actually thinking th get paid by Verizon or something..now that we getting some apple news you bithcing? get real my dude..

  • Mgl

    Hopefully that feature will be included with iOS 4.2.

    • Dirk

      Don’t you mean

      iF4u? Every version of the iPhone F’s something up.

      Is this this savior OS that will end the Fragmentation on the iSeries of OS’s?

      Different version/features from 2g, 3g, 3gs, 4, iPad, Touch.

      Roll the dice pick an OS and hope that Apple give you all the features it’s advertised and doesn’t pull them like every other iOS release.

      Free yourself. Switch to Android.

      • Mgl

        lol you just made my day.

      • Carmen

        The argument that the iOS platform is more segmented than Android is ridiculous. There are still devices coming out that have 1.5 or 1.6. That is just crazy. You are accurate in saying that one would free themselves by going from Apple to Android, but talk about “Welcome to the Jungle”. There is no platform more segmented than Android.

  • Obj_me

    My god does this site feed the fucking trolls, I swear they represent like half of BGR’s readership… And no he doesn’t have a WP7 phone, he has a kin…FTW

    On the original subject; good the 3Gs should get it, it has the horsepower for the post processing necessary for HDR and should not be falsely limited to pad Apple’s bottom line…

  • Mohammad

    show me the most beautiful girl in the world… and ill show you a guy is who is tired of f—ing her. iphone is that most beautiful girl.

  • lfom

    Apple, please bring native HDR to 3GS! Please, please! =)

  • sch

    The one fail here is that they don’t use vectorial icons.

    • sch

      ..and this zee dude also fails. I dislike iOS, but hell I don’t blurt out crap like that.

  • MacMan

    You know this feature rocks. There is a big difference in the indoor photos, the outdoor photos look better with out it.

  • u

    bgr deletes comments! fags

  • Rockne

    Apple needs to stop jailing our phones I don’t like having to wait for a jailbreak before I can get the newest OS

  • Cha_pimp

    What windows phone7 do you have again?

  • Apples

    “Get a real music player” “Zune” if you want him to get a “real” music player than why is Zune in your comment?…..

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