Was the iPad Supposed to Have a Camera?

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Posted January 27, 2010 at 7:26pm by iClarified

The just released iPad Emulator contains functionality that suggests the iPad was supposed to have a camera.

Crunchgear found that within the iPad’s contacts application is an “Add Photo” button. When pressed the button pops up a menu asking you to “Choose Existing Photo” or “Take Photo”. If you press the "Take Photo" button it opens a preview window which is supposed to display what the camera sees.

So what’s going on here? Did the iPad once have a camera, and it was pulled on such short notice that they didn’t have time to strip it out of the software? Does Apple planning on stealthily adding a camera to the features list some time in the next 60 days, as some sort of super-late “One more thing..”? Or did Apple just port much of the iPad contacts app from the iPhone version, and forget to lop out one of functions?

Lets hope Apple manages to slip this in last minute. No camera is likely a deal breaker for many customers.

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Jobs - January 28, 2010 at 12:02pm

It's an Ipod touch on STEROID!!!! LOL

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Njoni - January 28, 2010 at 5:22am

Well probably it is meant for external camera but it should've shown an error if there is no camera something like "There is no camera attached" or similar :)

byronchurch - January 28, 2010 at 1:12am

If you can upload from a camera , I see no reason you couldn't use your iPhone as an extension to the iPad with the usb adaptor or with bluetooth for that mater !

fenrry - January 28, 2010 at 1:18am

...so they have a cable that can connect 2 iphones or an ipad to an iphone?, got to c this!!!

Tony - January 28, 2010 at 12:38am

Ported, well kind of. In keynote they said scratch, but would think they generally ported parts. Its just funny that with apple being so anel you would think they would have cleaned this button up for the Ipad SDK since the image spacificly shows the Ipad version of contacts, But this is Apple after all. No one but Steve knows why theu do things the way they do.

iName - January 28, 2010 at 12:09am

it was "supposed" to have a lot of things

Jay - January 27, 2010 at 9:19pm

Its the iPhone OS not the iPad OS so its meant for the iPhone which has a camera and the iPad.... The iPad OS was not specially designed for the iPad it was designed for both devices.

deception - January 27, 2010 at 10:09pm

what a deception it supposed to have a camara a pen, an also could run osx app

ported from iphone os. - January 27, 2010 at 7:55pm

Bah its just a software they ported from the iphone. Iphone OS 3.2, they didnt start from scratch. just put some modif. and add some stuff. Just look at the size of the pop-up to take a picture. Just the size of an iphone

Tony - January 27, 2010 at 7:43pm

lol, uh.. oops... Someone is unemployed...