The good thing about this design is the fact the camera is implemented into a corner, so you can use the iPad in either landscape or portrait mode. The case is made of a rubber material. There is also a port on the bottom to be able to re-charge the iPad without taking it out of the case.

Microsoft has build a prototype webcam. The Microsoft Webcam can be plugged into the iPad dock connector. Video is displayed through VGA with a 640×480 resolution. The production model should be a lot smaller then the one displayed in the picture of this article. There’s only one obstacle here: Apple. They need to approve an app that works with the webcam. So you can either use the webcam via the official ways or via a jailbreak.

Source: Pocket-Lint

With this application you can make photos with your iPad via the camera of your iPhone. That’s immediately it’s weakness; you need an iPad AND an iPhone. You need to install the app on both devices. You can then connect the two devices via Bluetooth or Wi-Fi. The next step is to place the iPhone on a surface and you can start making photos with your iPad. You can zoom in and out without moving your iPhone.

Camera-A for iPad, $0,99 [App Store]
Camera-B for iPhone, FREE [App Store]

“The Camera tab represents photos available via the Camera Connection Kit for iPad, and is not relevant for the Simulator. The Camera tab will disappear after a few seconds.”

As a paying user of the SDK you have access to the changelog and the SDK itself via the iPhone Dev Center.

The three pictures above show that Apple has been busy implementing a camera in the iPad. Not only the code is referring to camera support, but also the software itself (in the form of buttons) shows that a camera is/was a part of the iPad.

The Photo app has now been added to the news SDK 3.2 beta 3 and 9to5Mac has made a video of this application. The app runs in the iPad simulator of the SDK and shows that you can separately set a wallpaper to the background and a different wallpaper to the lock screen. It also shows that you can turn the photos around with finger gestures. Take a look at the 6 minutes video:

Source: 9to5Mac (video) / MacRumors (pictures)

The job posting particularly focusses on iPad media and it’s the new employee’s job to test the photocamera, videocamera, audio-recording and audio playback.

“The Media Systems team is looking for a software quality engineer with a strong technical background to test still, video and audio capture and playback frameworks. Build on your QA experience and knowledge of digital camera technology (still and video) to develop and maintain testing frameworks for both capture and playback pipelines.

Familiarity with and interest in photography, video as well as media file formats is highly desirable. Experience with tuning of and image pipeline, including, but not limited to AWB, Color Correction, AutoExposure, FrameRate adjustments is a plus.”

It’s unclear whether the iPad will include a camera or not when it is released, although it looks pretty clear that the first version of the iPad will not have a camera of any sort. The camera capabilities the new employee is going to test might be for the second version. In that case we’ll probably see an iPad with camera as early as next year.

The Job description can be found at jobs.apple.com

Source: MacRumors

A camera would have been a welcome addition to the iPad. With a modified version of iChat on the iPad and a monthly data plan, people would have been able to make video calls from everywhere they are. Although there’s no information about a camera on Apple’s iPad pages, there is some evidence that the iPad originally had a camera on board.

First of all there’s the leaked photos of a prototype version of the iPad. Look closely and you see a home-button on the bottom, just like the iPad shown by Steve Jobs, but there’s another notch on the top which could indicate a camera (see picture below).

There’s another piece of vague evidence provided by Steve Jobs himself. When you re-watch the first part of the keynote, at 9 minutes 22 seconds,  you can see a quick glimpse of what appears to be a camera. Was Steve presenting us with the original iPad? And is the iPad shown on Apple’s website not the real one? Will we see a “one more thing” by the time the iPad is launched worldwide? Probably not, but there’s still one more piece of evidence that is the most convincing of all.

Below is a picture, taken by Mission Repair, which shows the following: top: iPad frame, middle: camera, bottom: MacBook frame. You can clearly see that the iPad frame has room for a camera.

Unfortunately Apple clearly chose not to include a camera with the iPad. It is likely they tested many other features, hardware and software, but saved a couple of those features for a future version of the iPad. The iPad will ship in March.

Source: iSpazio / Mission Repair
Also read “The Flash Story“

“And, for what it’s worth, I’m hearing there is no camera, webcam or otherwise, on The Tablet.”

Gruber is a much followed person who has offered accurate information several times in the past. His latest accurate piece of information was the revealing of Apple’s October products unveilings.

So we hear a lot of contradicting reports. One claims there will indeed be a camera and now Gruber says there won’t be a camera in the Apple Tablet. Other reports, with an appearance in mid-August, claimed Apple would offer two models. A model with a camera and a model without a camera.

I’m getting very very curious to what Apple will really show us in two weeks from now. What about you?