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Second, we managed to get a slab of glass some are calling an iPad digitizer screen. Now, the jury is still way out on if the iPad digitizer will be separate from it’s underlying LCD like it is on all three generations of the Apple iPod touch, and the iPhone 3G and 3GS. Personally, I am leaning more towards the digitizer and LCD being one fused piece, much like the First Generation iPhone (aka iPhone 2G). Since the iPad parts that are trickling out of China seem to have v1.0 written all over them, no one will really know the answer this question until the iPad hits the street on April 3, 2010 (and yes, we do have our pre-order placed for our brand new iPad).
The big thing we noticed on this piece of iPad glass is there is a small, circular opening in the black border at the top of the screen. Some of the techs here immediately thought ‘proximity sensor’ and some of them thought ‘opening for camera lens’ – it was almost as contentious as the occasional “mac-versus-pc” discussions (well, arguments) we sometimes still have over here.
After looking closely at the iPad frame part and now this screen, I have to agree that it looks like a camera on the iPad is imminent. I am just not sure if we will be seeing one April 3, 2010, or in the 2nd Generation iPad and beyond Besides, the proximity sensor on today’s iPhones are currently tucked behind the semi-transparent black border and require no such “cut-out” in the black border in order to function, and who’s going to hold an iPad up to their head like an iPhone anyways?:
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Anthony Magnabosco, Owner
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