As we all know the iPad was announced and the 1st Gen iPad will not have a camera built in, this disappointed many no surprise there, but here is a real surprise some new evidence suggests whole lot more then just a Camera. Latest evidence dugged up shows support for “Front Facing Camera, Camera Flash, Zoom and Video Conferencing” this comes from macrumors.com.
Here are some even more tantalizing pieces of information found in the latest Beta 3 iPad SDK. We’ve been told that if you go digging into Apple’s private framework which controls the camera, the iPad SDK tests for 3 additional camera characteristics that are not found in the iPhone 3.x SDK. For comparison, Erica Sadun has a code listing of iPhone 3.x PLCameraController.h on her site. The Beta 3 iPad SDK version adds these additional test conditions for the device’s capabilities.
It seems Apple built in API support to test to see if your iPad had a Front Facing Camera, Zoom and a Camera Flash. The front facing camera would, of course, be used for video chat, while Zoom and Camera Flash are often requested features for the iPhone’s camera.
