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Will the Apple iPad ship with a camera?

February 2, 2010 Posted by Alyssa Duval under Apple, Electronics, iPad, iPhone, iPod, tablet
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Does the iPad have a digital video camera?  Looking at a screen-grab from the official video of the event shows nothing but a small dot above the display, opposite of the home button.  These showed an iPad locked down in a security frame, and you could clearly see the camera in it’s bezel. 

Still not convinced? Checkout this this screenshot from the iPad emulator in the new SDK (software development kit)?

It sure looks like the iPad thinks it has a camera… The last, and oddest, piece of the puzzle comes from Mac and iPod repair company Mission Repair.  The company has already received replacement parts for fixing iPads, even though the 1st device doesn’t ship until March.  On the company’s blog, employee Ryan Arter has posted pictures which show a spot for a camera in the main iPad frame:

This is accompanied by a picture of the frame alongside the camera from a MacBook. A perfect fit. The only thing that seems weird on this last point is that Apple is already sending out parts.  Well their not.  The company who makes the parts, in this case frames, are.  Not Apple.

So why didn’t Steve Jobs announce the camera already? We think Apple is leaving it out to meet the rather severe price restrictions it has set for the product line.  Jobs is most likely using the 1 gen iPad as a prototype on stage,  just as he did with the iPhone.  A prototype would be likely to have the camera intact.

If everything adds up, we’d guess that the first generation iPad will still ship without a camera.  After all, did all the reporters who got hands-on time with the iPad after the launch really all miss an iSight camera? Probrably not.  And remember the third-gen iPod Touch, which was expected to have a camera and then shipped without it, but with a camera-shaped hole.

Perhaps Apple will pull a “one more thing” closer to the launch date, or not.

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