iPad Camera will come true
Author: emily | Publish Time: 2010-07-15 | Category: iPad
"Why Has The Ipad Got No Camera? I am in a dilemma on whether to buy the ipad or an ipod touch. If there is a possibility of installing a camera in the ipad please share :) Thanks" ask by NiTRiC N3ON x from Yahoo answers.
Many persons may be so disappoint that the iPad has no webcam for video-conferencing calls, once again to a front-facing camera. According to second-hand sources and a post to a public mailing list, the Apple iPad 2.0 accessory adapter for cameras, the iPad Camera Connection Kit, will support audio interfaces that are compatible with the USB Audio Class. I don't have official confirmation from Apple, and the adapter itself appears not to be shipping until later this month, so file this as "likely, but unconfirmed." But it's one to watch, and comes as a surprise to me. (Generally, camera accessory kits aren't a way of providing audio expansion.)
The Webcam for iPad from PhotoFast may add a 2-Megapixel stills camera and a 640 x 480 video camera to the iPad "later this year". The camera will hook into the dock-port of the iPad and let users snap pictures using a companion app, and the product description says it will also work with IM applications, eg. MSN.
There seems to be no reason at all why a camera couldn't be hooked up to the iPad's custom USB port when it has its own app for communication - after all, the dock-port can already slurp in photos and videos through Apple's Camera Connection Kit. For it to be truly useful though, it needs to work with any app that wants to use it.
That's why the promise of "IM app" compatibility has us interested. Clipping a camera to the iPad to make a quick Skype call may not beat using a built-in camera, but it sure is better than lugging an entire laptop with you just to call mom. In fact, if it can tilt, too, then you could avoid the troublesome up-nose shots that a bezel-bound camera would surely face.
The camera in the picture, snapped by UK tech-blog Pocket Lint, is a prototype using a Microsoft webcam. The real thing should be smaller. Pocket Lint also got the scoop on a TV tuner planned by PhotoFast, also hooking into the iPad's dock port. All those complaints about the iPad lacking USB ports? Forget them. There will be peripherals aplenty for the iPad. You might not be able to use them with other computers, but neither will you ever have to install a device driver.
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