UPDATED with Video: iPod touch Leaks Begin! Is This the Third Generation’s New Camera?
UPDATE: Video has been posted, check it out after the jump!
ORIGINAL: New images have surfaced purported to be Apple’s third generation iPod touch, showing a top, center mounted camera for the presumed-to-be-announced in September product revision.
To catch up, we’ve heard the new iPod touch would have a camera and mic, and potentially come in at 16GB/32GB/64GB for $199/$299/$399. Now, as to the picture above…
Real? Fake? Really fake? There are certain constants in this Apple ‘verse, including spec and image leaks prior to, and in anticipation of, any new Apple event. So either way, we’re right on schedule!
[via MacRumors, thanks for the tip Gregg!]
August 14th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
1st comment! I think it is those 5 megapixel cameras they ordered. Or it is goiing on the tablet!!!
August 14th, 2009 at 5:45 pm
Apple will not have the camera in the middle like that. It will be on the right side.
August 14th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Don’t think it will be in the center, it does t look right.
August 14th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
Who uses a “supposedly new” iPod touch as a hockey puck before shooting a photo of it?
August 14th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
@fastlane, dust can scratch those shiny backs.
August 14th, 2009 at 6:20 pm
Why is there a dot next to the camera similar to the mac isights, to tell the user its on when they cant see that :S
August 14th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
If the iPod touch records HD I’m gonna be angry..
August 14th, 2009 at 6:21 pm
Engadget has already proclaimed these pics very fake
August 14th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
The iPod touch better not record in HD.. If it those that’s mess up the iPhone 3gs should had one 2
August 14th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
BS – someone took a jacked-up Tpuch 2G and mod’d it. Bad one at that.
August 14th, 2009 at 6:28 pm
Mac rumors has the video up, its definitely not fake. Click the link macrumors link and scroll down its got the video posted, sorry its real. The hole next to the camera is supposedly the mic.
August 14th, 2009 at 6:36 pm
Totally faked, already debunked before this even hit my RSS. And I notice QuikDC already said that.
Who puts the camera in the middle? Only Blackberry.
Why wouldn’t it hold the same form? And what’s the pin-sized hole next to it? ARE YOU EVEN TRYING!?!
August 14th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
Kinda hard to fake the video and the pin hole is the mic.
August 14th, 2009 at 6:41 pm
I think this is a fake picture. Look at the black-plastic underneath the camera lens cover, it seems that it slopes towards the top left-hand corner of the lens cover, which is the camera from the current iPhone? Any thoughts?
August 14th, 2009 at 6:46 pm
Photoshop
August 14th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
Agreed, Very fake looking. Any mug can dremel a hole into really nasty looking 3rd party case and stick a generic mobile camera lens behind it! Either that or its one of those nasty hong kong ipod touch knock offs….
August 14th, 2009 at 6:48 pm
The VIDEO IS POSTED, HOW DO YOU PHOTOSHOP THE V I D E O??
August 14th, 2009 at 6:51 pm
I can believe that its a fake case and a camera drilled into it. That makes sense.
August 14th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
Lock at this video
http://www.flickr.com/photos/covinoandrich/3821820098/
August 14th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
Thats what Ive been trying to say for the last 3 posts, there is video, but it could still be drilled and fitted, we need to see it working to judge it. fact is its not p shopped
August 14th, 2009 at 7:08 pm
Fake… Camera positioning is not going to be diff than the iPhones. Would have sales less than they could get otherwise… There are caeses that have inserts to fit iPod touch and iPhone let alone other things.
August 14th, 2009 at 7:13 pm
I thought those chinese cases has the camera hole in the middle?
August 14th, 2009 at 7:19 pm
Ok so after viewing the vid. I am thinking this just might be real. If it was a 2g touch the motherboard would be black… Instead this one is red. Which is the color that sometimes appear in apple test hardware for differentiation or so I have heard. The reason it is so scratched up is because it was a hardware durability test. I mean it could be real I guess the real question is how did it get in these ppls hands.
August 14th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Updated with the video!
August 14th, 2009 at 7:47 pm
As much as I want to believe this is real I think it is a very good fake?
August 14th, 2009 at 7:53 pm
this is totally fake, i agree w/ @gregg. someone could have very well had way to much time on their hands, drilled a hole put in an old iphone cam and poked a little pinhole next to it (cause it makes sense to have a mic for a vid camera, right?!) and then made the edges smooth and believable. and wtf is up with it not having the top and bottom of the face of the ipod???? def. fake in my opinion
August 14th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
I say yes and no. I mean I want to see it take a picture, then I would believe it. Its totally possible. and they arent going to put the camera on the right like the iPhone, because that little rubber thing is there.
August 14th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
FAKE! It doesn’t have the apple touch.
August 14th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
This is totally real. I believe it 100%. It is completely consistent with the Chinese case manufacturer leaks. Bravo.
August 14th, 2009 at 9:15 pm
it might just be real i mean geesh look at the video
August 14th, 2009 at 9:35 pm
Justin the back is likely blank because its a tester phone, why waste money on branding the phone when it was never meant to be sold.
August 14th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Off topic, can anyone tell me how to sync photos/videos from my 3GS to MacBook iPhoto thru iTunes sync? I only see sync options from iPhoto to the iPhone, not the other way. Thanks.
August 14th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
This stuff is always fake. Anyone remember all the fake pics and speculation about the 3GS? Remember the matte black finish on the back that didnt happen? Or the black bezel on the front? There are people who have nothing better to do than photoshop pics and make fake mockups using current equipment. The next gen ipod touch will probably get a camera but I doubt it will look anything like this.
August 14th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Seems pretty suspicious that where the camera would normally be there’s a convenient big rubber chunk covering it up. What is that supposed to be? Its only purpose as far as I can tell is to cover up the hole from the real camera. I vote fake.
August 14th, 2009 at 11:19 pm
The rubber chunk is on every iPod touch since the day they came out.
August 15th, 2009 at 12:32 am
To everybody who thinks somedody drilled a hole a cramed a camera… You are clearly no industrial designers and have no idea how elaborate that would actually be since when the guy turns the iPod the camera is perfectly fitted in place and you can clearly see the aluminum rim the tipically surounds the camera lens very smoothly placed… I’m not saying is the real deal, I’m just pointing out that produce a fake like that is not as easy as it sound (just taking a drill and a hammer and boom the new iPod touch)
August 15th, 2009 at 12:35 am
And just to back up Gregg, yes, the “blackrubber thing” is the cover for the WiFi antenna and is plastic to facilitate reception…
August 15th, 2009 at 2:32 am
and now engadget is saying they were wrong and the video is real. all of you can eat CROW. why can’t the camera be in the center? because…it just can’t? wtf this is the 3G touch. get over it.
August 15th, 2009 at 2:34 am
and dan is a complete idiot who has clearly never even seen an ipod touch. “what’s the big rubber chunk”?? you should actually have seen a product IRL before you comment on how fake a new edition is or not.
August 15th, 2009 at 2:43 am
If someone would risk losing their job over leaking this image, wouldn’t they take a **** load of better pictures to prove it???
August 15th, 2009 at 5:20 am
I really want it to be fake. I hope apple will do actual hardware changes to the iPods unlike the iPhones. urgh but I doubt it
August 15th, 2009 at 8:51 am
I agree with Will. Why is the quality of these leak video always SO BAD? The leak of the tablet earlier this week was about 4 seconds long, this one never holds still for a second to even get a look at the device.
August 15th, 2009 at 9:03 am
The reason why the camera isn’t in the same spot is because they have to put the WiFi receiver there. The reason they didn’t just plop it on the other side is because it would be difficult to use. The middle is the best place to put it when they can’t use that one side. It makes perfect sense. And it is completely consistant with the Chinese Case rumors.
August 15th, 2009 at 9:14 am
Why is the video not iPhone viewable?
August 15th, 2009 at 9:41 am
@Kevin.. Because it’s on flickr. God. Calm your tits.
Anyway, the reason I KNOW this is not a mod, is because it does not have the apple logo on the back of it. Prototype units for the iPod touch would not be engraved and stuff because that’s a waste of time and money since they are not being sold. This can’t be a mod because there is no way of getting the logo off once it’s on there.
It’s definitely real now.
August 15th, 2009 at 12:48 pm
Good thing they put the video up or it would have been debunked with the pics. I dont know anything about photoshop and those pics blown up, look like the camera was pshopped on there, but the video is a little harder to fake.
August 15th, 2009 at 12:52 pm
I don’t think its real simply because there have been, and will continue to be, tons and tons of fake videos and pics. Just remember the aluminum cased Iphone with video call camera, and of course the black matte finish etc. There will always be fakes, and people will always make big deals out of them. I’ll believe it when I see it on the shelves of an apple store. I also don’t think that apple will put the camera in the middle, I feel like they’d try harder to make it look more like an iphone. Everything else has always been consistent, with the exception of the sleep button and headphone jack. Who knows…
August 15th, 2009 at 1:36 pm
now that is ugly!!!!!
August 15th, 2009 at 2:41 pm
Everyone knows the iphone 3gs was a rushed to shop product , poor build quality in the new plastc back cover and overheating resulting in now 10 that i know of exploding iphones, for apple the touch market is larger than the iphone and if you look at the ipod touch it normally features newer tech than the iphone , so the upcoming touch will be a good indication to how the next iphone will be in 2010
August 15th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Why is it hacked apart? A prototype? Would need to see a video of it working..
August 16th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
Alright, here are a few clarifying points we’ve established so far on the picture and video:
1) The picture is fake. If you zoom in on the camera and the small dot next to it you will see that the area around it is blurred, indicating that it was photoshopped.
2) If the picture was fake, WHAT MAKES PEOPLE THINK THAT THE VIDEO IS REAL???!!!??? It’s supposedly the same ipod in the picture as in the video, and if the ipod in the video is real why wouldnt the guy who made the video just take a real picture of the ipod instead of photoshopping one?
3) We shouldn’t want this video to be real because that just means that the ipod touch is still in the prototype stage. Apple then still needs to finalize it, manufacture it, and then ship it, which will take a while. If this video is real, then we can’t expect the 3rd generation ipod touch to release any time before late october, even november.
August 16th, 2009 at 5:32 pm
Some good info here, I wasn’t expecting to land here and start reading but looks like I did! lol
August 17th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
the camera is going 2 be in the middle because they antenna is in the way
August 23rd, 2009 at 6:50 pm
thats looks like an inconvinent spot to place a mic, don’t you think? apple would probably place the mic on the front, so you wouldnt have to breathe all over the camera and flip it over to use the mic
and the way it was filmed was obviously shaky, blurry, not intended to be clear to viewers.. the screen isn’t glass, like it should be
the iphone’s camera was to the side, so it wouldn’t make sense if the itouche’s was in the middle
BUT did you notice what was USED to film that video? take a look at the reflection. the iphone doesnt have flash/ light for the camera… looks like the new itouch was being shown in the reflection>
August 26th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
PROOF IT IS REAL!!! VISIT HERE-
http://ipodtouchthree.blogspot.com/
August 30th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
HUH???!!! u know wht apple is stupid if they r releasing this w/ camera and mic….it would make iPhones useless…just JB the ipod touch 3G and use wi-Fi and get phone service AND texting from the app store….so they better hopr itz fake cuz ipod touch is cheaper then iPhone….lol
September 7th, 2009 at 11:52 am
I think it is a real prototype of the upcoming itouch that is gonna be revealed on 9-9-09. I also think its funny that the guy filming is using an iphone.
October 4th, 2009 at 3:44 am
guys i already have the ipod touch third gen!it’s color black with red!i just bought it the day after yesterday!:)))
November 2nd, 2009 at 7:06 pm
Hi,i have just been rip of as i have got three ipod touches with camerers they came box and apple logo 32gb plastic case got for gran kids been rip right of kind regards rigsby.