iPad Air and iPad Pro Could Both Feature Landscape FaceTime Camera

[spinedoc77]

Funnily enough, an under display camera near the centre of the screen could be fantastic for meetings/training presentations etc as you could be staring at the screen and into the camera at the same time.

This would be great but I'm not sure those are completely invisible yet. The ones I've seen, if you look really close you can still see the pixels on lighter backgrounds.

 

[Moukee]

Watch them ¨magically" solve having both a camera and Apple Pencil magnets and charging coil on the same side which people used to excuse Apple for using the Apple Pencil Gen 1 for the iPad Gen 10.

 

[darngooddesign]

Watch them ¨magically" solve having both a camera and Apple Pencil magnets and charging coil on the same side which people used to excuse Apple for using the Apple Pencil Gen 1 for the iPad Gen 10.

They will probably solve it with a hardware change in both the iPad and Pencil. As someone else pointed out, adding magnetic charging would make the iPad-10 more expensive and require a more expensive pencil. Thats the roll that the Air fills.

 

[EugW]

Watch them ¨magically" solve having both a camera and Apple Pencil magnets and charging coil on the same side which people used to excuse Apple for using the Apple Pencil Gen 1 for the iPad Gen 10.

For the iPad Pro, this of course can be solved, and will be solved.

However, for iPad Gen 10, some might prefer Apple Pencil (USB-C). Gen 1 will work but it will not attach magnetically and also requires that specific charging adapter.

 

[ateslik]

Landscape-mode with a Zugu case is the way. If they put the camera on the landscape side, take my money!

 

[brooklyn275]

Apple's upcoming redesigned iPad Air and OLED iPad Pro models could include a front-facing camera positioned on the side of the device so that it is upright when in a landscape orientation, individual rumors suggest.

Currently, the iPad Air and both iPad Pro models in Apple's lineup feature a FaceTime camera on the top of the device, which puts the camera off-center when taking a FaceTime call in landscape mode.

Seemingly recognizing the issue, Apple on the 10th-generation ‌iPad‌ relocated the front-facing camera to the side of the device so that it would be usable in landscape mode rather than portrait mode. Apple has not launched an iPad since, but it appears that Apple could be making this change on future iPads as well.

In January of this year, code discovered in iOS 17.4 suggested the next iPad Pro could adopt a similar design for the FaceTime camera. "During ‌Face ID‌ setup, iPad needs to be in landscape with the camera at the top of the screen," read the code.

Now, occasional leaker Instant Digital on the Chinese social platform Weibo has claimed that this change is also coming to the two rumored new versions of the iPad Air, in both 10.9 and 12.9-inch sizes.

How Apple has achieved this switch to a landscape FaceTime camera on the new iPad models is unclear, since the second-generation Apple Pencil connects to both the iPad Air and iPad Pro using an inductive magnetic charger along the same side.

But with Apple rumored to be launching a new Apple Pencil alongside the updated iPads, Apple may have come up with a solution to the issue. Either way, we should find out soon. Both the new iPad Air and OLED iPad Pro models are expected to launch as soon as this month.

Article Link: iPad Air and iPad Pro Could Both Feature Landscape FaceTime Camera

Great, Give me a 15" and 20" model as well

 

[Juggernaut510]

Please no notch. I would rather have a slightly thicker border.

Eeeeeeeeek

 

[aj_niner]

Please no notch. I would rather have a slightly thicker border.