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

[SAIRUS]

Can't they go beyond a VGA front facing camera?

No, see you don't understand that this is a magical device. It plays in PERFECT harmony with your iPhone 4, and that's what it's all about, HARMONY! Just look at the CRISP BEAUTIFUL text. Please keep looking at it. I plan on making facetime incompatible on older devices once I adjust the specs of the camera.

Umm, if it has a front facing camera, it will support FaceTime. People won't buy iPads just to take self-portraits.

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[hehehesub]

ridiculously useful

a back camera would make the iPad an amazing portable computing device to gather information. I'm currently a geology student and recently on a field trip i couldn't see why all the data collection and processing couldn't be done on an iPad, which would have been more effective modelling and ALOT faster.

also i love to use the iPad as a cook book. it would be great if I could take photos of my creations on the same device that i keep all the info for the recipes.

basically it would make the iPad an amazing data collection and processing tool.

 

[moderately]

Like a clipboard with a camera

a back camera would make the iPad an amazing portable computing device to gather information. I'm currently a geology student and recently on a field trip i couldn't see why all the data collection and processing couldn't be done on an iPad, which would have been more effective modelling and ALOT faster.

also i love to use the iPad as a cook book. it would be great if I could take photos of my creations on the same device that i keep all the info for the recipes.

basically it would make the iPad an amazing data collection and processing tool.

I can see it.

 

[twoodcc]

yeah this makes perfect sense. the iPad needs both cameras, front for facetime and the back one for everything else

 

[Nausicaa]

Agreed. The idea that the iPad is somehow too large to use as a camera is kind of ridiculous. Yes, it is larger than most devices casually used as a camera, but it is still a pretty small device. I really don't think it is so preposterous an idea, and there are many uses for such a function.

 

[C. Alan]

Wow, 1st quarter 2011. That is quick for a refresh.