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iPod touch with 2MP camera leaked (updated)

By | May 19, 2010, 10:41am PDT

Summary: New leaked photos (and video) of a prototype iPod touch indicate that a 2MP camera may be in the device’s future.

Well lookey here. Vietnamese Web site Tinhte has posted pictures and video of a prototype iPod touch with a 2 megapixel camera. Here’s a great shot of the sticker with all the components meticulously detailed.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/05/34bf3bb92ad239dsc0012-1274268675.jpg

The unit, labeled “DVT-1″ (for Design, Verification and Testing), is running a diagnostic utility from manufacturer Foxxcon that eschews the iPhone OS in favor of a more utilitarian UI with rows of icons for testing all of its various hardware functions (got to love that Serial Number icon, eh?):

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/05/34bf3bbbeb3274dsc0040.jpg

Speculation abounds that the new iPod touch could grace the stage with the next-generation iPhone when WWDC opens on June 7, 2010.

This video provides a tour of the device.

Photos: Tinh Te, via Engadget

Tip: Engadget

Update: Eric from MacRumors writes:

This is an old prototype. The model number and serial number indicate it’s a third-generation prototype manufactured in June 2009. So it’s the same as the other camera-enabled iPod touches that leaked last year. Apple of course pulled the feature before releasing the new models last September. It doesn’t mean a camera-enabled iPod touch isn’t coming, but it would be a new model with presumably other changes in store.  And I’d be shocked if it came at WWDC instead of at a fall media event.

Read his post about it here.

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Jason O'Grady is a journalist and author specializing in mobile technology. He has published six books on Apple and mobile gadgets and his PowerPage blog has been publishing for over 15 years.

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Jason D. O'Grady

Jason D. O'Grady developed an affinity for Apple computers after using the original Lisa, and this affinity turned into a bona-fide obsession when he got the original 128 KB Macintosh in 1984.

He started writing one of the first Web sites about Apple (O'Grady's PowerPage) in 1995 and is considered to be one of the fathers of blogging. He has been a frequent speaker at the Macworld Expo conference and a member of the conference faculty. He also co-founded the first dedicated PowerBook User Group (PPUG) in the United States.

After winning a major legal battle with Apple in 2006, he set the precedent that independent journalists are entitled to the same protections under the First Amendment as members of the mainstream media.

O'Grady is the author of The Nexus One Pocket Guide, The Droid Pocket Guide, The Google Phone Pocket Guide, and The Garmin nuvi Pocket Guide (Peachpit Press), the author of Corporations That Changed the World: Apple Inc. (Greenwood Press), and a contributor to The Mac Bible (Peachpit Press). In addition, he has contributed to numerous Mac publications over the years, including MacWEEK, Macworld, and MacPower (Japan).

When he's not writing about Apple for ZDNet at The Apple Core, he enjoys spending time with his family in New Jersey.

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frank dib Updated - 14th Feb 2011
@frank dib A two megapixel camera? What a piece of crap! Didn't two meg cameras become obsolete like, two years ago?
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Just 2 MP?
John Zern 19th May 2010
I would have thought 5MP would be the norm, anymore.
@John Zern I won't buy another iPod touch (on my third) until there are both front/back facing cameras. The touch works fine for Skype audio and leaving my digicam behind for most uses would be great!!
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@frank dib A two megapixel camera? What a piece of crap! Didn't two meg cameras become obsolete like, two years ago?
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2 MP? Not Good!
tonyhunterajh 19th May 2010
What a massive fail if the iPod Touch is released with such a cheeszy camera!
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what a revolution! an mp3 player with a camera. almost as innovative as a microwave that shows the time (but much less useful)
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Call Me When....
tricktytom 19th May 2010
...they leak one with SD and Flash Support.
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You Can't Be Serious!
tricktytom 19th May 2010
A two megapixel camera? What a piece of crap! Didn't two meg cameras become obsolete like, two years ago?
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zdnet pundits
banned from zdnet Updated - 19th May 2010
it's a prototype from 2009. even the numbers on the back say so. poor "reporting" as always on zdnet.

for some real info have a look here:
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/05/19/photos-and-video-of-ipod-touch-with-camera-surface-in-vietnam/
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Maybe all of these "prototypes" are being release to throw bloggers, industry and news people off the trail of what Apple is really doing. There is too much of a coincidence of all these prototypes of Apple gear popping up everywhere since the Gizdomo incident.
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I won't buy another iPod touch (on my third) until there are both front/back facing cameras. The touch works fine for Skype audio and leaving my digicam behind for most uses would be great!!

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