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“A version of the tablet device with a built-in video camera and support for the new FaceTime video conferencing standard has already progressed to the advanced testing stages, according to a person with proven knowledge of Apple’s future product plans,” Hughes and Jade report. “Though the inaugural fleet of iPads has seen surprising momentum that’s kept them out of a supply-and-demand balance since April, their FaceTime-equipped successors are said to be tracking for an introduction no later than the first quarter of next year.”
Hughes and Jade report, “That person familiar with the company’s plans claims that as of last month, there was an ambitious push inside Apple to verify the refresh for a possible launch ahead of this year’s holiday shopping season.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: The sooner, the better. The first three things that “average” (non-techie) people ask about when they see our iPhone 4 units are: FaceTime, FaceTime, and FaceTime.
As early adopters, we’ll simply sell our current iPads and apply the proceeds towards new ones. We would not give up the months we’ve already spent with our first-gen iPads for anything.
@Robby
That’s what I’m hanging out for too but I don’t know if I can hold out that long!
So we’ve gotta get creative and be online salesman within months to get the new one? If it comes out that soon….. Shouldve just held off and did it right. Like the white iPhone. The public will survive.
Company bought ones for employees don’t have that option to sell merchandise.
Wish all you want. There won’t be an upgrade before Christmas.
In order to get the unlimited data plan, you had a very narrow window in which to become a first adopter. This would only add insult to injury unless it’s available on Verizon or Sprint
Don’t need a camera, don’t want face time.
I don’t use iChat on my iMac, why would I use it on an iPad or iPod touch? Feels uncomfortable and really isn’t as useful as it seems.
Just give me the darn ios update already and I’m happy.
Apple’s not going to make the same mistake with iPad as with iPhone. Android got a toe hold because of limited availability and some missing features.
I don’t see that happening to the iPad. The front facing camera is a huge deal to many many people, me included. I’ve been waiting patiently. With two sons in college and one left at home, we are doing a lot of iChats / Skype video calls.
Though I think verison 1 is a great enterprise machine, and Apple should continue to pump out those without cameras as fast as they can.
Apple definetly needs to expand it’s manufacturing base to get more product into the market. This consistent shortage is equally frustrating from both a customer and shareholder perspective.
What will really jump-start FaceTime to the next level is releasing it to Macs. That will provide a nearly immediate critical mass and help spur even more hardware sales (both toward Macs and toward iPhones/iPads/iPod Touches).
For all of you who won’t buy the first version of an Apple product, you should know that the first iteration of the iPad was iPhone 2007.
iPad won’t have a Retina display for a few years because they’ll remain too expensive for such a big screen.
I bought iPad on day one and have not regretted. I sold an iPhone 3GS 32gb for $325.00 and got a 32gb iPod touch for the face time. I have sprint 4g hotspot and it works great with Skype on iPad or iPod touch. I am happy now. I agree face time on Mac would get the ball rolling. When Apple decides to put out Facetime on the iPad nobody know except Apple. Surely they have a roadmap that has served them very well up to now. With over 7 million ipads sold already, Apple is no rush to offer better specs at the same price as current ipads. When worthy competition spends millions promoting how their tablet has a camera, boom Apple will drop a new model on their head. I a guessing that iPad 2 will only have a facetime camera and not a rear camera. Apple rarely piles every feature into every product. This creates a need for multiple products. Apple creates products for the tech lover that almost becomes addictive. I for one am a junkie. The iPod touch 4g is my latest fix.
nightstar said: “Actual figure out a bigger uses for a camera based iPad. Would be for students to snap a picture of the blackboard to go along with any notes made in class.
Or may be augmented reality for star gazing.
Else except for video chat cant really see something this big really needs a camera.”
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See, you came up with a really good reason to put a rear camera on an iPad. I bought others could come up with a dozen more reasons for a practical use for a rear camera in the iPad.
Think big people. Don’t limit yourselves!
“I bought others…..”
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Haha, I swear I’m not a slaveowner. I BET others……..
I said it all in my article:
iPad: Do They *Really* Get It? (Full article)
http://bit.ly/bhhcf2
MacDailyNews reprint: http://bit.ly/cmXiFF
RC Copeland
I will wait until my iPad battery runs out, then swap it for free with an iPad 3rd gen. For a phone, I use a reliable Nokia that never drops calls like my friends’ iPhones.
You holdouts have more control than I do, I bought one on day one. I don’t think people really understand how their computing habits will change. I hardly ever pickup my Macbook Pro now.
Well most of us figured that when apple came out with iTouch 4.
Tbh.
I thought that FaceTime was one if the least exiting features of the iPhone 4. I had no idea it would get this attention and I don’t get why. Why would I like to see the person I talk to? That’s why I’m talking on the phone. Well sometimes it could be fun but I don’t get it. I thought the A4 and the Retina display was the mist exciting.
But since FaceTime seems to be so popular I think it was a mistake that Apple made it an open standard. This could be another driver for iPhone adoption. Or Apple could have licensed the technology to other companies. It was a nice to make it open but perhaps a mistake. This could have been a really nice IP for Apple.
Then that means iWork is coming to iPhone 4 right???? I sure hope.