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OmniVision to Provide Front and Rear Cameras for Second-Generation iPad?

Cyacene said:
Why does everyone want more RAM? Are your current iPads running slowly?
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I got the 16 and thought that I'd run out of space too soon and regretted it but I've got everything that I need on it and still have about 4g free... But I don't use it as a big iPod either.

On the taking a picture, how are people supposed to react with someone holding that huge thing in such a threatening posture in the air. :eek:;) The thing is big enough to club someone into the middle of next week. My first thought as I took mine out of the box was to wonder if it was bullet proof because it weighed so much. (Not that I'm that upset. So much of the cheaper/lesser technological items for sale feel so damn cheesy and flimsy that I pass on some of them. My peecee notebook has an all metal shell and I paid more for it but I wanted it to last a while. That's one thing that I love about my 13" MBP, it's beefy, built to last for a while)
 
Focker said:
If this is true, I will finally jump in with the iPad camp. Facetime capability is a must for me before I'll buy one. My kids use this feature to video chat with grandma and grandpa 3000 miles away. It's priceless.
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+1
My partner only consumes content on her MacBookPro. Everything apart from Skype/Facetime is already there on an iPad. Give me that and you can have my money Apple. The sooner the better (dead battery on laptop + auto shutdown after 15 mins when not connected to the mains = looking to replace!)

More storage would be nice to hold all her photos though.
 
A rear facing camera would be good for FaceTime, but I can't imagine holding an iPad up to take a still photo. That's a bit ridiculous.
 
Cameras schmameras.

Give it more power to process and more storage. When they can keep the battery life and give it 2 to 3 times the computing power (and a little more res), it's my new desktop-laptop. Yeah, that's 3 or more years away, but I'd rather read about the processing rumors than camera rumors.

Cameras on an iPad are like candied cherries in a manhattan. Nice, but not necessary.
 
Piggie said:
Excellent news as far as I'm concerned.

I of course, hope the iPad will be able to take HD Video and have a enhanced Video editing App on the iPad2.

Will be excellent to shoot video and edit it all on the one device on a reasonably large screen.

I guess all the people on these forums that have posted before that they don't want a rear camera will be sticking some tape of their's when they buy one so they can't ever use it.
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Finally......somebody with some sense on this board. This is exactly what I have been saying for months.

JUST ADD THE FREAKING REAR CAMERA.
 
Piggie said:
Picture this.

The iPad is a family device, the type of device you have downstairs, and use in the evening, sitting back on the sofa.

Your kids are having some fun, perhaps a play fight, making funny faces, or perhaps even your dog or cat is doing something funny for a few seconds.

You raise your iPad and can capture this priceless footage without going to get your camera, or looking around for where you left your mobile.

Given the iPad is the device most lightly to be at hand in the evening when you are relaxing, it's more lightly you will may capture those rare funny moments with it, which would be gone by the time you had found another device to record the moment with.
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This would be the one exception to having a back-facing camera. Your kids or family doesn't care how dumb you look:)
 
Piggie said:
Excellent news as far as I'm concerned.

I of course, hope the iPad will be able to take HD Video and have a enhanced Video editing App on the iPad2.

Will be excellent to shoot video and edit it all on the one device on a reasonably large screen.

I guess all the people on these forums that have posted before that they don't want a rear camera will be sticking some tape of their's when they buy one so they can't ever use it.
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kyjaotkb said:
Steve said that touch is really useful only when used on a flat, lying surface, right.. which is why Macbooks (and macs by extension) are very unlikely to bear touch panels.

Now we're talking bout Facetime on the iPad... so, lets stay coherent :
- either people will have to hold the (still quite heavy) 'Pad to communicate using a front facing cam
- or the cam will be shooting with an angle like, say, 45°, assuming you're using the ipad flat on a tbale
- or the cam will be some sort on ingenuous external gizmo that'll let you chat comfortably without holding the ipad with both (or worse, one) hand. maybe a new accessory, like an iPad stand, will include the new camera...

anyway the paradox of Facetime + using a touch device on a flat surface VS holding it vertically merits imho some debate... doesn't it ?

cheers
o.
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You are thinking too much. Just hold the damn iPad.
 
Blakjack said:
Finally......somebody with some sense on this board. This is exactly what I have been saying for months.

JUST ADD THE FREAKING REAR CAMERA.
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The iPad 2 better have some more onboard storage or some external connection options if we are going to start shooting HD video with the iPad.

By the way. I don't disagree with Apple adding a rear-facing camera to the iPad. My point is, it's a clumsy device to use as a still or vidcam...period.
 
Analysts don't know squat. Rear Camera? LMAO! May be they should add one to the macbooks too :p.

Although, since Apple are going for consistency across all devices (read: changing the location lock to a silent switch) it isn't far fetched.
 
PinkyMacGodess said:
Cyacene said:
Why does everyone want more RAM? Are your current iPads running slowly?
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I got the 16 and thought that I'd run out of space too soon and regretted it but I've got everything that I need on it and still have about 4g free... But I don't use it as a big iPod either.
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You are very confused. The question is about RAM, not storage.

@Cyacene - I tend to think the current iPad RAM is just fine. However, with the intro of iOS 4.2 and pseudo multi-tasking - I can see how more memory will be very handy.
 
Rumors dating back a number of months have also pointed to the possibility of a 7-inch iPad to join the existing 9.7-inch form factor, but and Apple CEO Steve Jobs' recent criticism of tablets in the smaller size coming from competitors strongly suggests that the company is not pursuing such a release.
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Fixed that for you. Come on, don't you guys ever learn?
 
Nausicaa said:
I know many will disagree, but I see plenty of value in a rear camera on the iPad. I doubt I would use it for photographs very often (hell, I barely take pictures on my iPhone), but I think there is a lot of potential for sweet augmented reality apps on the iPad's larger screen. So I hope this rumor is true. A VGA front cam seems obvious at this point, but I am less interested in this as I find video chatting to be highly overrated.

Still, I'm pretty happy with my current gen 3G iPad, so if these are some of the only major new features, I probably won't upgrade this year.
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I agree, much more than camera additions are going to be necessary for me to get v2. I had an original iPad, but sold it in anticipation of the new one coming. I bought an iPad for school, and then found out I would be doing more video editing and web design that required more muscle, so back to the store the iPad went. Loved my iPad though.
 
A front camera for video chat I can understand, but a rear facing camera on a tablet just seems ridiculous to me, and will require a hole in the back of cases (meaning guess what, everyone needs to buy new cases even if the form factor remains the same). Not really happy about that.
 
You seem to forget. The iPad is an Internet tablet. It's not a laptop, it's not a desktop.

More RAM is surely wanted, why not stick in 512MB like the iPhone 4, or maybe even 1GB like Apple's competitor HTC.

More storage? Really? 64GB is not enough? I have a 32GB iPod touch, and even with my full music collection, over 200 apps, and over 2,000 photos, is only halfway full. IMHO, unless the iPad is your only idevice, then you should either keep your music in the iPhone/iPod or compress the music to 128kbps.

Make the new iPad lighter, more ram, and add the two cameras with a retina display, and you will make the iPad the most killer tablet ever.

Sure the iPad is large, and may be a bit akward to hold up at 90 degrees, but it isn't enough to say let's not put one at all. Front facing will definitely work, rear facing would be awesome. Make it more than 5MP, make it 8MP and shoot video in native 720p. Then make an expanded iMovie with features similar to the one in iMovie '11 and you have me sold.

Enough with my ranting, but I'll close on this. If you have an iPad, and you don't need cameras on your iPad, then DON'T upgrade. Or if you do upgrade for the front facing camera, then just don't use the rear one.
 
HiRez said:
A front camera for video chat I can understand, but a rear facing camera on a tablet just seems ridiculous to me, and will require a hole in the back of cases (meaning guess what, everyone needs to buy new cases even if the form factor remains the same). Not really happy about that.
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That's a good point. Most people are going to be ticked when they find out their "high-quality" case they purchased is now obsolete. Something I hadn't thought about, good post.
 
All iDevice front-facing cams would be VGA if this is true? Having never used FaceTime, how does the quality look on iPhones, iPod Touch and Macs?

Would the large size of the iPad's screen and it's inability to have resizable windows make streaming VGA look ugly?
 
JerzeyLegend said:
More storage? Really? 64GB is not enough? I have a 32GB iPod touch, and even with my full music collection, over 200 apps, and over 2,000 photos, is only halfway full. I
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I don't have a single friend whose music collection is UNDER 100GB. I need a LOT of storage, and I need it to house EVERYTHING I OWN.

A storage upgrade would be nice.

(I bought the 64GB anyway, and while nice, I'd like to see something ridiculous like 128GB or even 256GB).
 
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