Ever since the Apple iPad was unveiled, the blogosphere has been abuzz with complaints about the lack of Camera and Flash on what Steve Jobs claims is the "most important thing" he has ever done. However, it now appears that there is much more to the iPad than what was demoed on Wednesday. According to fresh rumors, a camera on the iPad is quite likely; at least in the second generation of the device.
Folks at Engadget have gathered vital information from "trusted sources" that imply the presence of support to video calling and multitasking on iPhone OS 3.2. Additionally, popular iPhone jailbreakers chpwn and Ryan Petrich have also revealed that hacking into the iPad simulator have given them indications of support to a slew of other interesting features that could be supported on iPhone OS 3.2. Here is a list of them. Please do remember that these are still speculations at this point.
Video Calling:
Trusted sources have told Engadget that iPhone OS 3.2 has "rudimentary support" for video calling. This includes features such as option to accept or decline video conference calls, flip video feeds and the ability to run video calls either in full screen mode or in smaller screens.
Multitasking:
This is still an unsubstantiated rumor. However, considering that there is an option to run video calls in smaller screens, folks at Engadget speculate if this is to allow users to work on other applications while talking on a video call.
File Downloads:
iPhone OS 3.2 might allow users to download files from the web and use them in other applications.
SMS Support:
Popular iPhone jailbreaker chpwn claims that the iPad could come with SMS support. He claims that there are indications of this inside iPad simulator's code. A screenshot of the hacked copy of iPad simulator appears to confirms this support.
SpellChecker:
There appears to be a comprehensive spell checker that includes the following dictionaries: Apple Dictionary, New Oxford American Dictionary, Oxford American Writer's Thesaurus, Shogakukan Daijisen, Shogakukan Progressive English-Japanese Japanese-English Dictionary, and Shogakukan Ruigo Reikai Jiten and user-added entries.
Handwriting Keyboard:
Jailbreaker Ryan Petrich claims there appears to be prototype support for a "handwriting keyboard" though not much information is available on this.
In addition to those mentioned above, Ryan also claims other interesting features like file upload option on Safari, peer-to-peer support for image sharing and expanded Bluetooth support appear likely though these are not substantiated enough.
What do you make of these speculations? Do you see these features being made available on the iPad and some of them available even on the iPhone? Please tell us what you think.
[via Engadget]
there cant be a camera on it because there isnt the hardware on it besides the software for one.
That's why Andy has mentioned at least in the second generation iPad.
Well I did see in a other site that the softwear in the ipad did have a capture picture on it's softwear. Not sure if it was in mail or some where lik that, but the site said maybe it was a mistake that was copied from the iPhones softwear. So I don't no.
Ipad vs alienwear mx11! Hand down mx11 search it up.
Alienware mx11 fool! And yes it's much better than the ipad.
I won't purchase one till it has a camera, support for flash and until they work out any bugs… I see great possibility in the work place for this. I don't think I would need the 3G but would need bluetooth for head sets and support for scanner interface. That being said… I want one.
There isn't a camera on the iPod Touch, yet it can still take screen shot's. Perhaps this is a feature that allow's you to video what you are doing on the tablet, and the minimize thing could be allowing a user to run their normal tasks while video is still on (very benificial for app developers who want to show off the performance of the app (possible Tablet app store feature?))!
It could also be taking advantage of being a tablet and allowing multiple apps to run (like video as suggested above) much like how computers can run multiple applications at a time like safari and iTunes!
i told ya
STFU you all
The iPhone OS is already capable of multi-tasking. You can take a phone call, and then access other applications without hanging up. Ditto for Safari–when you "exit Safari, it remains running in the background, with all the pages that you accessed still open and consuming resources.
Video calls could be enabled the same way, by allowing iChat to stay running in the background.
The point is that only the few programs that Apple sanctions to run in the background are able to do so. Unless you hack the OS, in which case there are several unsanctioned applications available to you for managing multi-tasking yourself.
the most wanted thing for me is
tv live tv .