If you planned on making the iPad 2 your be-all, end-all imaging tool, it would appear you may be SOL. 9 to 5 Mac is reporting that the rear-facing camera on the back of the unit will be a paltry one-megapixel – which wouldn’t seem so bad until you remember the iPhone 4′s camera is five… and some older flip phones are two or three. But, if it makes you feel any better, the front-facing camera is VGA, so by comparison, 1-megapixel isn’t the worst. Just don’t throw out your digital camera just yet. This revelation is especially odd considering it was previously said that OmniVision technologies had been…

Big Steve would have you believe that Apple isn’t working on several sizes of iPad, and has outright denied rumours that a 7-inch model is on the way. According to Jobs, 7-inch tablets are “DOA”, and we’d have to “sand down [our] fingers to around one-quarter of their present size” just to operate the things. But lo! Reuters is citing Asian manufacturers who claim that Apple is, in fact, working on a smaller iPad, which we could see drop early next year – perhaps even along the iPad 2. It’s too early to call, and take what you hear from Asian manufacturers with a grain of salt. Although Steve is pretty well…

So this, allegedly, is a case for the next iPad. There’s not much to say – it’s a case. Who’s to say it’s even legit? But assuming it is, it looks like we got that camera we were after, so we can awkwardly take pictures with a giant slab. Have you ever snapped a photograph with a book? You’re about to. The speaker slot also seems much larger, and oddly enough, the design seems surprisingly… more curved. Personally, I thought the iPhone 4 offered evidence that Apple was moving to a far more flat, sexy, industrial look, but it would seem Jobs wants to take it back to the 1998 iMac in terms of design. How hipster,…

Citing an unconfirmed report in a Chinese newspaper, Digitimes has had the stone guff to whisper into our supple ears a list of five possible features the iPad 2 may or may not possess. The list is shakey at best, but sensible, and includes thinner glass, for mobility, a Retina display, video chat (meaning FaceTime (meaning cameras)), a 3-axis gyroscope, and – get this – a USB port. On the whole, most of these features are a pretty good bet, I’d say. The only reason the iPad 1 doesn’t have a camera was so they could make money this time out, and a large-as-hell Retina display is also likely in the cards in…