iPad 2 Could Have At Least One Camera, Leaked Screenshots Suggest (RUMOR)

You've heard it before: the next generation iPad (aka iPad 2) will probably feature at least one webcam. But now there's a pretty good reason to believe the rumors.

MacRumors has discovered three app icons for FaceTime, Camera and PhotoBooth in Apple's iOS 4.3 Beta 2 software kit, which was released to developers this week. These applications are designed specifically for use with a webcam. The Camera application takes photos, FaceTime allows iOS users to chat with one another via webcam, and PhotoBooth takes photos and offers fun editing options.

The presence of these app icons could confirm that the iPad 2 will come equipped with one, possibly two cameras.

However, MacRumors writes, "We still can't say for sure if there will be a back camera, as the camera app could possibly be used only for the front camera." Information Week points out that a rear-facing camera, in addition to a front-facing camera, is "a logical addition to the device."

Engadget reports that the first beta release of iOS 4.3 featured support for new multi-gesture functions that were not supported in the second beta. It's possible that the app icons spotted in iOS 4.3 beta 2 may never make it to the final release.

Apple is expected to announce the iPad 2 sometime in the spring of 2011. Read on for our ultimate guide to iPad 2 rumors, as well as recent speculation about the iPad 2's size and design.

Comments

[sandwedge66]

08:54 PM on 02/02/2011

I hate to break the news to all my old PC friends from the 80's and 90's but your Windows based machines are so old school. Take a bite from the Apple, it's not poison.

[redmaple]

01:44 PM on 01/31/2011

This will change the world as we know it.

[John Kramarz]

07:49 AM on 01/24/2011

I think they'll have a forward facing camera for chat, because they want more people using their Facetime software. You can get it for ipod touch and mac, so they really want to make this a leader in that market.
For first gen iPads, they could make a camera that plugs in the port, like they used to with the iSight Firewire camera. It could swivel, so point it wherever you want. A camera on the back though? I don't see much call for it. Almost like putting a camera on the back of a laptop display. Will people really use something as big as an iPad for taking pictures or video? Jeez! They would look like Ansel Adams! It's also a slippery slope because the few people that want it would also want it to be magnificent. 10+ megapixels, full size sensor, flash, connection for external flash, zoom lens, and interchangeable lenses (or else 'it sucks!')

[Zihuat]

06:35 PM on 01/23/2011

They're oriented so your Ipad can Facetime w itself. You won't have to do anything!

[umbrarchist]

06:03 PM on 01/22/2011

What? No USB?

Trash it!

[buddhistMonkey]

03:19 AM on 01/25/2011

((( "What? No USB?" )))

The iPad's dock connector supports USB:

http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC531?mco=MTc4Mjc0Nzc

[umbrarchist]

01:31 PM on 01/28/2011

You provide a link to a silly $30 camera connection adapter which never should have been necessary to use USB and you think you have proven a point? Folding USB keyboards cost less than $30..

[Alpha-1]

05:51 PM on 01/22/2011

Why don't they get rid of the frames around the screens. I saw somewhere that they have the glass type to accomplish the task. It would make any gedget futuristic. Creating see through versions of iphones, and ipads would also be interesting. Adding an automatic sink application that will automatically sink all the apple products you own would help out.No more manually sinking you desktop or notebook every time you needed up dated info or transfered files.

[John Kramarz]

07:24 AM on 01/24/2011

We use their Mobile Me service for $99/year.
One feature is that it syncs everything you want it to. Calendars, contacts, etc.
So, my wife can add a contact or event on her iphone, and I could be on a business trip and it will show up on my iphone and laptops, etc.

[GREATerSOCIETY]

03:42 PM on 01/22/2011

"iPad to Buzz?" Great, Apple's gonna get into Google's.....

Aw, man. I shoulda knowed Steve wouldnt go there.

[clearpepsi]

03:11 PM on 01/22/2011

Oh. yeah.. a camera will so so put it over the top - hurray! I am sure glad this natural and not paid for "rumor" post has come to light and that this freedom and life affirming revolutionary product has features such "under selling", "fragility", "redundant usages" and "ailenating buyers" like the previous one did.

[JasonG4s]

08:47 AM on 01/22/2011

I buy a iPad in june they come out with what people wanted on it a half a year later. I buying a iPhone in February (thank you verizon for getting me away from att) and I know you are going to come out with another one in June but I am going to get it anyway...so Steve jobs get it right the first time and think about what people want and need make the product then wait 2 years and make another one

[clearpepsi]

03:12 PM on 01/22/2011

I buy a can of soup today ...

[WaterCloset]

11:35 PM on 01/21/2011

"At least one camera..." This year will have 1 camera, next year they'll probably put the other one in. That's how the iphone rolled and that how the ipad will probably roll... It's so annoying. Also, can't they put in pressure sensitivity (and include palm rejection). That would be really nice for artists and note takers.

[John Kramarz]

07:27 AM on 01/24/2011

how do you discern between palms and multitouch gestures?

[WaterCloset]

02:00 AM on 01/27/2011

Sorry for the confusion. I was referring to the use of a stylus. It's hard to write on a capacitive screen without palm rejection.

[gvscmr]

10:43 PM on 01/21/2011

LOL... iPad is a sick joke and by iJobs trying to beat everyone else to the draw omitted numerous technologies and now it will fall victim to far better technologies that will be released shortly (Motorola Xoom for one) http://goo.gl/WZ1S7 With Steve iJobs Med Leave Apple will fall further behind because of all their eggs are in his basket. Apple had better have far more than dual cameras because if it does not offer flash content (it won't) and TRUE multitasking (it won't) the Xoom will have it for lunch.

Dear Steve... Bleeding edge isn't necessarily the best thing now is it?

[sole]

01:34 AM on 01/22/2011

nice try...

[John Kramarz]

10:17 PM on 01/23/2011

" Bleeding edge isn't necessaril­y the best thing now is it?"

LOL!
No, it isn't. You'll find out when you start pushing your dual core processor with a dozen apps wanting to update, etc, and all wanting to multitask. Then you'll bring up your Flash sites and just watch the battery fizzle.

[aneesoft]

10:18 PM on 01/21/2011

No matter what iPad 2 will be like, but we can sure that it will be better than the first generation, we have to do is waiting and waiting for its final appearance! Get one and an Aneesoft iPad video converter.

[DRaymond]

03:42 PM on 01/21/2011

Gee, I could have told you that the iPad 2 would have had cameras because it was the most obvious intentional omission from the iPad 1.  There was no technical reason and miniscule cost not to have them part of the original iPad.
 
Ditto for a mini-hdmi output.

[Turtlenewz]

10:33 PM on 01/21/2011

hdmi would be great but might not be to #3

[ran6110]

03:30 PM on 01/21/2011

While I really like using my iPad for many things I still consider it a secondary device because I still need to carry my iPhone or iPod Touch for the Clock and Calculator.

Yes, I know there are replacement options for both in the App store I really expect them to be built into the OS on the device. I'm always amazed that they took them out of the iPad but left the silly YouTube app alone...

I realize that these two apps mean nothing to Steve Jobs since he has an army of apple minions to wake him, remind him of appointments and to calculate how many millions he's made today. But to me and a lot of other people they are important...

Oh and a camera is not important if I already carry two facetime capable devices...

So unless there are some serious updates beside the camera I'll pass on this update...

[Dennis Yuen]

01:22 PM on 01/21/2011

It's almost spring, debut the ipad 2 now!

[ran6110]

03:37 PM on 01/21/2011

We just hit the 1 month mark on winter how is spring almost here???