Apple puts in piles of patent applications but the latest bunch are very indicative of what we can expect from iPhone 5 and iPad 2. Apple is obsessed with camera patents right now with a flurry of snapper focussed documents emerging over the past week. We’ve pulled together the details after the jump and it paints a picture of seriously perked up camera smarts for iPhone 5 and the presumably camera-clad iPad 2…
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Got an iPhone 3GS? Fed up of hearing about all the myriad benefits of a retina screen and shonky antenna from all those gobby iPhone 4 owners? Well, now they’ll have one less thing to brag about, as it looks like the iPhone 3GS is all set to get HDR added to its camera functionality.
Apple made a big deal of the new HDR photo feature in iOS 4.1 when Steve Jobs unveiled the update last week. Now details are slipping out that suggest the tech behind the new iPhone/new iPod touch feature didn’t come from Cupertino but was in fact dreamed up in…East Anglia. Read on to find out how British tech found its way into iOS 4.1…
Exclusive: You may know Dolby best for its surround sound technology, but the company’s on the cutting edge of high-def video rendering too. Its latest system, Dolby HDR, uses LED backlighting to push contrast ratios to the max, and we’ve just heard that the first gogglebox it’ll be garnishing will be out Q1 next year. Read more