First hints about iPad2 cameras?

It looks like the rear-facing cam­era in the iPad2 won’t be a world-beater, accord­ing to this analy­sis by Wired:

The specs for the iPad’s rear-facing cam­era only lists one num­ber: 720p. That should mean 1280 x 720 pix­els, which gives a megapixel fig­ure of 0.92, clearly use­less for stills.

How­ever, flip over to the iPod Touch cam­era specs and we see the fol­low­ing: “HD (720p) up to 30 frames per sec­ond with audio; still pho­tos (960 x 720) with back cam­era.” Yes, the Touch shoots stills at an even lower res­o­lu­tion than video, most likely because the wide-screen movie for­mat is squared-off to shoot stills. The stills it pro­duces are just shy of 0.7 megapix­els, or about the same res­o­lu­tion as an early 1990s-era dig­i­tal camera.

Good for lo-fi shots, and some video, it seems. Of course, we won’t know more until the iPad2 actu­ally ships.