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Steve Jobs announced the upcoming release of iOS 4.1 for iPhone and iPod touch. One of the major fixes will be the iPhone 4 proximity sensor issue.  Some new features to iOS 4.1 include HD video upload over WiFi, High Dynamic Range photos, TV show rentals and Apple’s Game Center.

High Dynamic Range photos are created out of a combination of three photos with low, medium and high exposure settings. This makes the photo more clear and vibrant.

Game Center, originally revealed for iOS 4, is another key feature of iOS 4.1 which allows users to add friends, play against friends and do all sorts of social gaming stuff on their iPhone. iOS 4.1 will be available for download via iTunes next week.

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There were some new wallpapers included in iPhone OS 4.0 beta 4, and now they are available for download.  These 25 iPhone wallpapers can be used on jailbroken iPhones running OS 3.x if you have the Winterboard app installed from Cydia.

Download: iPhone OS 4 Wallpapers

Internet tethering is a feature that has been available on the iPhone since OS 3.0, but blocked by AT&T.  iPhone OS 4.0 beta 4, which was released to developers earlier today, has a new message that hints that AT&T tethering may be coming soon.

But if you’re like me and don’t feel like waiting for AT&T to offer this feature that they already allow on many of their other phones, just jailbreak it and install MyWi.

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iPhone OS 4.0 SDK beta 3 reveals two presets for video recording resolution, the current 640×480 and a 1280×720 (720p).

• AVCaptureSessionPreset640×480
• AVCaptureSessionPreset1280×720

This almost confirms that the next iPhone will have HD video recording.

It’s easy to set up your Gmail account to archive emails instead of deleting them on Mail for iPhone, but it looks like they’ve now incorporated the archive feature into OS 4.

From 9 to 5 Mac:

For you Gmail folks out there: Apple still loves you!

They’ve gone ahead and added your ever-so-favorite archive feature to the native mail application. This feature archives your Gmail messages for later viewing vs. just deleting your emails.  Google has plenty of space!

To archive, just swipe on the message like you’d normally do to delete. For those wondering, we took a picture with our HD Camera because Apple decided to add another new feature to iPhone OS 4 in beta 2: Screenshots that don’t work.