HDR photos are coming to jailbroken iPhone 3G/3GS

Apple HDR photography tool for iOS 4.1 on the iPhone 4 will soon be available for iPhone 3GS and 3G owners but only for jailbroken handsets. A New Hack appears which will apparently be included as part of the Cydia unofficial download store available for jailbroken devices.

HDR in iOS 4.1 takes three photos rather than a single frame, one purposefully over-exposed and another under-exposed and then combines them to produce an image that has detail from all three. As Apple has officially limited the new functionality to the 5-megapixel iPhone 4, but while the iPhone 3G/3GS camera is lower resolution (2MP and 3.2MP) so that users will still likely see some improvement in their photography.