Nope - The iPod Touch was never getting a camera. The Touch will probably finally get a camera when Microsoft puts a camera into the Zune.
I don't think that. I believe the camera will be in the next generation iPod Touch, no matter what Microsoft does to the Zune. The iPod Touch was clearing planned to have a camera, as seen in the tear-down and case leaks, but I think it was pulled out for at least one of these reasons.
1.
Apple thinks they can still milk the iPod Touch before they have to make any major improvements/new features.
People are still going to buy the iPod touch. 20 million sold in just two years? That's a huge success. But the iPod Nano, as Apple has stated, isn't as big as it used to be and they need to make it big or it'll die out like the Classic is doing. The FM radio and camera was the Nano's last hope. The Touch doesn't need saving, it's only growing, so Apple didn't need for the third generation to be a major update.
2.
The VGA video-only camera isn't good enough for the iPod Touch.
For a device the size of the Nano, that camera is great. I doubt they could fit anything better in there without increasing the overall size of the device. But the iPod Touch is meant to be an iPhone without a cellular connection. Everything the Touch has, the iPhone has and they're both equally good (except for the speakers). And the iPhone has a fairly good camera, which you can't fit into the Touch. If the camera in the Touch is a lowly, fixed focus VGA video-only camera and not a 3 megapixel, autofocus camera with both stills and video, then it's not good enough for the Touch.
3.
Manufacturing problems.
This could be it, but once the problem's fixed I don't think a camera will be in it until next September.
Apple says you don't need a camera in the iPod Touch, just like how they say you don't need an iPod with video. But they actually have reasons sometimes, even if they won't tell you what those reasons are. Don't believe them saying the Touch is meant for gaming or the Touch would then cannibalize the iPhone.
