Apple Releases iOS 4.3 Beta 2 to Developers
InformationWeek: Latest beta of next upgrade to Apple's operating system for the iPhone, iPad and iPod touch drops much-talked-about multitouch feature but adds new camera functionality.
"Apple's iPad doesn't have a camera and it cannot conduct video chats. These features were widely expected to be present on Apple's first-generation tablet when it was announced in January 2010, and the lack thereof put Apple's iPad at a competitive disadvantage."
"Many of the iPad's existing and forthcoming competitors have one or two cameras. The Research In Motion PlayBook and Motorola Xoom, for example, have dual cameras on board. Google and Motorola showed off what the native video chat application for Android 3.0 Honeycomb looks like in a series of videos released earlier this month. It strongly resembles Apple's FaceTime app and looks to be a competitive product offering from Google and its hardware partners."
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