iPad x-rayed, everything looks fine

this is weird cause they don't come out here until next month...

Everything comes down to poo...

Mr. Ipad I have good news and bad news.

The bad news is your camera is broken, the good news is we can remove it with a photoshop app.

While it might make sense to have a camera in a Touch, it does add a significant expense to the device. So I would expect the low end Touch to always be camera free. I'm also expecting Apple to attempt to remain very agressive in Touch pricing.

So what does this have to do with iPad. Well first it is model #1 and as such follows Apples path, seen in other products, of getting the core features right first. Except for base RAM Apple did really good with that approach on iPad. The second thing is what sort of camera are you talking about here, rear or front facing?
It is like this one would look like an idiot using a rear facing cell phone quality camera on the iPad. A front facing camera would make some sense for up your nose conferencing but then Apple would need to have software to support that shipping. It looks like that will be a reality in iPhone OS4.0 so maybe we will see an iPad with a conferencing camera sometime in September. The key here is that Apple will not sell hardware without software support.

As a side note; if Apple could get away from cell phone quality sensors and optics a rear facing camera has some potential. Give the optics shift and tilt and you end up with a modern redition of a large format camera. The problem of course is the optics hanging out the back of the iPad. Apple would need at least 10 megapixel sensors to make this worthwhile. One thing is certain sensor quality is changing rapidly so maybe this will happen soon in an iPad profile device.

Keep in mind, the large space in the upper right corner (the x-ray is face down) is reserved for the 3G radio/GPS board, so the only real available open space is in the bottom left.

No surprise that the x-rays broke nothing. An iPad is going to have to survive all those airport scanners, which typically are higher power than medical devices.

Gizmodo needs one of these

I believe that's the ambient light sensor that has been mentioned in the past.

Looks like a camera potentially there. Maybe in the screen housing itself?

I see a dot on my wife's that certainly looks like somethings amiss.

New iPad wallpaper! Yay!