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Originally Posted by kjk
the cameras can actually take still photos, surprisingly (I thought they used the old nano video-only camera)...but for some reason only 960x720 on the back, VGA quality from the front.
And yeah, no compass/GPS is such a bummer-really wish Apple would make it them standard features across the iOS devices.
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I'm not surprised the camera doesn't match the iPhone 4's. Beyond product differentiation and the fact that the entry level price on a Touch is 1/3 of the entry level price on a no-contract iPhone, the biggest reason is that there is likely simply not enough room in a thinner device. The size of the sensor in a digital camera depends in part on the focal length of a system (this is basic optics), and in a very thin device that sensor size is necessarily going to be smaller. Sticking a 5MP sensor in there would result in very small pixels relative to the iPhone, and likely very poor image quality. That's simple physics, and while improvements will allow the Touch camera to get better in coming years, it will likely never be as good as the thicker iPhone can have.