Repair service finds iPad's camera slot

gah, wrong article...

It almost looks like the ambient light sensor...

if it has a camera, there are plenty of government buildings that you won't be able to bring it in to.

would be nice to have a camera. But there is one more possible reason that the ipad might not have a front facing camera. I don't know about other people, but my macbook and my ex-girlfriend's macbook both went nuts with the cooling fans everytime we videochatted. It is a processor intensive activity. And the amount of heat generated might be outside of the ipad's thermal envelope altogether. I can't imagine the ipad having a fan, as I haven't seen any vents on it from the pictures so far...

just my $0.02

I found some great evidence supporting this camera slot. Check it out http://gopost.info/71

They dropped the ball on the iPad. Jobs should have gone with his gut instinct that told him there was no place for sudh a tablet. Seriously, what took them so darn long? There is no new technology here, it's an over-priced netbook with a touchscreen. Of course they should have two cameras in it, it should do HD (with output...wireless HD streaming would be nice), it run a real OS that gives you a real file structure available to use, it should support MS Office as a native app, it darn well should multitask, they ought to have incorporated e-ink, it HAD to have a stylus, and it probably should have a separate hardware accelerator for flash. That would have been a compelling product, instead, they've put out the most gimped piece of nonsense they possibly could have. Why couldn't this have come out a year ago (probably even 2 or 3)? And what gets me is that THEY still have people wanting one. This is no iPod, and certainly no iPhone. Heck, my iPhone does more for less...and I don't need a bag to carry it around. This is a joke. Take a look at the MS Courier concept. Tell me Apple couldn't pull that off better. Instead we're left with this blah.

Dream on! There's no way they'd just "ship with a camera" outta the blue.

Apple HAS to hold something in reserve for v 2.0, 3.0, etc. Just like they did with the iPhone (I'm not complaining, I upgraded my iPhone every year so far and will probably do so again this year...)

Camera, Multi-tasking (if really needed), etc. will all eventually come. As will an HD version with widescreen and higher resolution. Patience... and keep thanking those early adopters for their $$$$ contributions to Apple! :)

Given the inability of the average joe to hold a regular camera steady (see: Youtube), what makes you think people will be able to hold their iPads steady enough to have a prolonged video chat?

Try holding a 1.5 lb book out in front of your face for about 10 minutes. See how much it wobbles?

Or perhaps a nice little surprise announcement that the shipping version of the iPad would also include the camera.

Very possible.

So the more important question is does the board have a plug for the camera, and does that mean I can toss one in when I get my iPad?