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FaceTime on iPad and iPod touch to use email to connect

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Cameras, Handhelds, Rumors,

FaceTime email

currently establishes a connection on the using your phone number as a means to authenticate. This is a problem for Wi-Fi iPads and the iPod touch, since they don’t have a cell service to verify who you are. However, that isn’t gonna stop Apple from bringing FaceTime to those devices. BGR has a couple of images showing that Apple will likely use your Apple ID—the email address you use when you register Apple products—as the means of authentication on those devices. From there, you’d get a push notification whenever someone wanted to have a FaceTime chat with you. Works for us, but of course, we likely won’t find out any more about this until September, when Apple introduces the next iPod touch. One more image after the break.

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Next iPod touch to rock front-facing camera, HD recording?

Posted by Andru Edwards Categories: Apple, Handhelds, Portable Audio / Video, Rumors,

iPod touch 4G faceplate

Hot off the release of the , the Apple rumor mill is heating up once again, this time in regards to the fourth-generation . The image above is making the rounds on a few Chinese sites, and it’s reportedly the faceplate of the upcoming iPod touch refresh. If the image is true, then it looks like we can expect a front-facing camera (and therefore, .) Furthermore, we are hearing that Apple plans to line the iPod touch right up with the iPhone 4, which should mean HD video recording in 720p, gyroscope, and a 5 megapixel camera around back as well. This would be the first time the iPod touch had a camera of any time built into it. Take it all with a grain of salt. We should find out the real scoop from Apple in September.

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