Apple iPad iSight Lite+ Concept Design

[jbyun04]

....or they could just include a camera in the next refresh.

Honestly I think once FaceTime is able to be used on more than just Wi-Fi (supposedly only for 2010), Apple will release an iPad with a camera. Assuming they're going to include a camera on the next iPad, it wouldn't make any sense for them to invest in an iSight add-on for the iPad.

If I were Apple and money was the goal, make the next iPad better enough than the current one that everybody who has one goes gaga over it and ditches their old one and buys the new one. If an iSight camera is released, people have no reason to buy the refreshed iPad really..

 

[2002cbr600f4i]

Explain to me how you're going to type on it with the unit up at an angle good enough to point at your face???

Probably the reason it wasn't included in the first place...

 

[ssdeg7]

I like the idea, hope it happens.

 

[j3yq]

I love the istand idea, I can see apple doing the camera idea for the early adopters

 

[Ubuntu]

Reality check:

Apple put a video camera in the last Nano . . . cost per unit is not an issue folks.

The pro-camera faction is generally divided into two groups. The first is "Why didn't come with a built in front facing camera?" and the second group is "Oh, they must be holding it back for Gen 2."

How about this . . . the design and engineering group tried it out and eventually came to the same conclusion that the Touch and iPhone team reached, that while the idea sounded good, but the end user result sucked and it didn't offer any satisfying user experience.

...only to release the iPhone 4 a few months later and cream all over the apparent revolution that is Facetime? I'm going to stick with "Oh, they must be holding it back for Gen 2" - something they can get away with. Its typical Apple schema, and it works. The iPhone has only just got a 5mp camera (a fabulous camera I must say) because they know they can get away with it - few companies can, hence the competitors falling over each other with "awesome" specs.

 

[sapporobaby]

You'd have to hold it upside-down :-(

There is no "right" way to hold an iPad. The commercial even said that.

 

[Mr Bigs]

Reality check:

Apple put a video camera in the last Nano . . . cost per unit is not an issue folks.

The pro-camera faction is generally divided into two groups. The first is "Why didn't come with a built in front facing camera?" and the second group is "Oh, they must be holding it back for Gen 2."

How about this . . . the design and engineering group tried it out and eventually came to the same conclusion that the Touch and iPhone team reached, that while the idea sounded good, but the end user result sucked and it didn't offer any satisfying user experience.

Kinda like the first iPhone wasn't 3g because Steve didn't think we needed it,then the iPhone 3g appeared 1 year later not to mention enhanced bluetooth.

 

[Factor1]

I had one of these for my old Palm. A camera that goes into an SD slot:

http://www.amazon.com/Veo-Photo-Traveler-Palm-Handhelds/dp/B00007FHEO

I wonder if this could be used with the Camera connection kit?

 

[WLS]

There is no "right" way to hold an iPad. The commercial even said that.

But there is a standard way to hold it with the 30 pin port on the bottom with the button.
OOps I may have just violated my tagline...

 

[bobob]

There is no "right" way to hold an iPad. The commercial even said that.

But there is a standard way to hold it with the 30 pin port on the bottom with the button.
OOps I may have just violated my tagline...

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[Alvi]

You'd have to hold it upside-down :-(

"They'res no wrong or right way to hold it" nah, Apple wouldn't do that and noone would carry that thing just for Chatroulette

ps: that lense is huge compared to the size of the iPad and to the iP4 lense that is just a dot

 

[kdesign7]

"They'res no wrong or right way to hold it" nah, Apple wouldn't do that and noone would carry that thing just for Chatroulette

ps: that lense is huge compared to the size of the iPad and to the iP4 lense that is just a dot

Ya it was a very quick...quick rendering. Didnt take more than two minutes. No doubt if there was such an adapter the camera lens would be the same size as the facetime camera on the iphone.

Thanks for the comment.

 

[ravenvii]

Kinda like the first iPhone wasn't 3g because Steve didn't think we needed it,then the iPhone 3g appeared 1 year later not to mention enhanced bluetooth.

Not really, Steve just used his favorite excuse lately: think of teh batteries!

 

[mrathee]

You'd have to hold it upside-down :-(

There is no upside down with the iPad.

Geeze.

 

[likemyorbs]

How about this . . . the design and engineering group tried it out and eventually came to the same conclusion that the Touch and iPhone team reached, that while the idea sounded good, but the end user result sucked and it didn't offer any satisfying user experience.

Umm, what are you talking about exactly? Have you heard of the new iPhone 4? It includes a front facing camera for video chat, and the text Touch might very well have it too. So which conclusion are you talking about? Apple could have easily included it, but then what fun would it be releasing a second gen?

 

[PCClone]

Don't like the external camera ad on. Needs to be built in so it would snap off.

I would wait for Apple over buying something like this.