The latest iPhone OS beta clearly shows a camera and LED flash for the iPod Touch and iPad.
It's an uncanny coincidence that news of the latest iPhone OS beta happened to surface just a day after an iPod Touch with a built-in camera appeared on the streets of Vietnam. As if to back up the hands-on video seen Wednesday, there are now reports that iPhone OS 4 Beta 4 shows signs of a built-in camera with LED flash for both the iPod Touch and the iPad. That's right, Apple's fresh new tablet is slated to receive a camera too.
An examination of the operating system's code revealed commands and values for the LED flash function that defines the ON, OFF, and AUTO modes. A further inspection then revealed all three Apple devices in the Flash Disabled portion, listing messages including "The iPad needs to cool down before you can use the flash." Another portion confirms the iPod Touch camera under the "TIFFMAKE" section. There's certainly no question that the latest OS plans to support the hardware.
On an additional note, iPhone OS 4 Beta also made references to Mac OS 10.7 in the AVMediaFormat section. The inclusion of the 10.7 code could indicate that the OS will hit the market sometime within the iPhone OS 4.0 lifespan: June 2010 to June 2011.
Naturally everything discovered here with iPhone OS 4 Beta 4 is unconfirmed by Apple, and doesn't really indicate that the next generation of devices will feature the indicated hardware. However, if Wednesday's video is indeed the real deal, users may see the camera-endowed iPod Touch rear its head later this year. Maybe since the proverbial cat is out of the bag, Jobs and Co. will give up on keeping secrets and lay it all out for fans during Apple's Worldwide Developers Conference next month.
These articles are flame baits!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lui0-4IW64
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuA_OUL91og
And their fan base continues on.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLcc19mt4eA
Haha, nice.
And... Considering the theoretical prototypes have already been dismantled and looked over, why is this news? Didn't those articles already say they had cameras?
BTW: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/21036-9-google
I dont think apple is paying them. I think they are worried the about the swat team breaking down the door if they dont post positive stories about apple.
Another top quality product from apple, i have a decent size xenon flash on my nokia n82 and i can use it as often as i want.
It does seem pretty suspicious how much mundane news gets posted about apple
It'll be a low price of $200, must be worth it. *sarcasm*
I really think other companies need to create their own private release meetings to create hype about a mundane product.
Guys try to be fair.... at least as today May 20th at 5:21pm EST... Toms only have 2 Apple related news in total 14 news they posted on May 20th from 6am-5pm EST. And one of the 2 are actually the News for AT&T...
1 out of 14 or 1/7 (if you count that AT&T news).... it is not that bad.... at least base on Tom's track record....;)
However I do have problem of having similar news posted repeatly.. like the camera on new ipod.. which was first reported on the Vitenm leak news... maybe it is better to keep this one as an update or followup story instead of being a news by itself.
Agree... since both the previous post on AT&T is also iPhone OS4 related and both of these news are not the original report (which means have seen on Engadget, wired, or Gizmodo already), it is defintely a good idea to group them together to have a summary report. Wich also make Toms looks better than just copying and pasting new from other sites (I do thank you a lot to keep us "informed".. but Toms needs to show its originality).