Apple Planning to Include Video Camera in Next Generation iPad?

There has been a lot of debate in the past over Apple's decision to not provide the iPad with a camera. 

However, there continue to be indications towards video recording capabilities being made available at least in future generations of the device. 

In a new job posting made on the Apple website, the company has asked for applications from quality engineers for their iPad media division who will be responsible for testing audio and video recording technologies. The job posting reads:

"The Media Systems team is looking for a software quality engineer with a strong technical background to test still, video and audio capture and playback frameworks. Build on your QA experience and knowledge of digital camera technology (still and video) to develop and maintain testing frameworks for both capture and playback pipelines."

Apple's job posting has added yet another dimension to increasing speculations surrounding the availability of camera in future versions of the iPad. Late last month, there were reports about the presence of "rudimentary support" for video calling capabilities discovered on a hacked version of iPhone OS 3.2. Also earlier this month, a repair company published pictures of an iPad frame purported to come with a slot that could fit a front-facing camera. 

With the presence of a camera in iPad 2G becoming an increasing possibility, we wonder if customers would choose to wait and watch, over purchasing a first gen iPad without camera next month. Would you prefer to wait till a camera is made available on the iPad? Please let us know your views in the comments.

[Apple Job Board via MacRumors]