Next-Generation iPad With 1-Megapixel Rear Camera and Case Cover Proximity Sensor?
9 to 5 Mac reports that it has discovered evidence within the latest iOS SDK revealing that the next-generation iPad will in fact offer both front- and rear-facing cameras. Unfortunately for camera fans, however, the rear-facing camera's resolution will apparently check in at only about 1-megapixel, significantly lower than the iPhone 4's 5-megapixel camera and more in line with the camera found on the iPod touch. The iPad's front-facing camera will apparently be of the lower VGA resolution found on Apple's other iOS devices offering FaceTime capabilities.
Many observers had expected that the second-generation iPad would offer a rear-facing camera with a resolution higher than that found in the iPod touch, with one analyst claiming last October that OmniVision Technologies had been awarded a contract to supply 5-megapixel image sensors for a rear-facing camera in the iPad.
On a somewhat related note, Brazilian site Blog do iPhone earlier this week reported (via MacStories) that evidence has also surfaced indicating that the next-generation iPad may offer a proximity sensor that would enable the iPad to sense when the cover on a case has been opened or closed and correspondingly automatically lock or unlock the device.
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18 months ago
Cool!
1mp kinna sucks but to be honest, although it would be slightly embarrassing to hold up my giant ipad to snap a group picture out in public... I would look over and see everybody else holding up their iPhones and them looking at me like "Really......?"
1mp kinna sucks but to be honest, although it would be slightly embarrassing to hold up my giant ipad to snap a group picture out in public... I would look over and see everybody else holding up their iPhones and them looking at me like "Really......?"
18 months ago
Sweet!
On a somewhat related note, Brazilian site Blog do iPhone earlier this week reported (via MacStories) that evidence has also surfaced indicating that the next-generation iPad may offer a proximity sensor that would enable the iPad to sense when the cover on a case has been opened or closed and correspondingly automatically lock or unlock the device.
On a somewhat related note, Brazilian site Blog do iPhone earlier this week reported (via MacStories) that evidence has also surfaced indicating that the next-generation iPad may offer a proximity sensor that would enable the iPad to sense when the cover on a case has been opened or closed and correspondingly automatically lock or unlock the device.
18 months ago
Makes sense. Cutting cost in useless parts such as a rear facing camera makes the "retina" display seem more realistic.
18 months ago
1MP? At that quality, I'd rather them scrap the rear camera and put more money into a better Facetime camera.
18 months ago
To be honest 1MP sounds ridiculous even for a rear camera.
I guess 2MP or 3MP would have been decent enough but I know people are going to defend this move. :rolleyes:
I guess 2MP or 3MP would have been decent enough but I know people are going to defend this move. :rolleyes:
18 months ago
Isn't the main reason there's only a 1 MP camera on the iPod Touch that the 5 MP part (and the necessary optics) are too deep to fit into the Touch, which is a lot thinner than the iPhone? If that's the case, then using a 1 MP part in the iPad might imply that iPad 2 is freakishly thin.
Well, we'll see.
Well, we'll see.
18 months ago
Here goes Apple again doing that low MP thing...1MP should have just been on the first iPad. Come on, Apple!
18 months ago
Nah, I'd say this is the Facetime one and Apple is messing with us with the file names. Where are the references to the FRONT facing camera? Oh wait, there aren't any ... You think Apple would put a REAR facing camera and not a FRONT too? That's just crazy, because you can't Facetime with that, and everyone is positive that there will be Facetime on iPad 2
So it will have a 1MP Front facing Facetime camera, and no rear, IMO.
So it will have a 1MP Front facing Facetime camera, and no rear, IMO.
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