No, it’s not a hardware device, but Camera for iPad (US$0.99) can help out those frantic iPad users who are wondering how the heck they’re going to survive without a by-God camera built into their latest Apple toy.
The app is universal and runs on both iPad and iPhone. In fact, the camera in the iPhone is what ends up being the real “Camera for iPad.” Installing the app on your iPhone and iPad allows the two devices to find each other via Bluetooth. When they’re linked, everything that the iPhone camera is seeing is transmitted to a window on the iPad. Press a button on the iPad, the iPhone snaps the photo, and then the photo is transferred — slowly — to the iPad.
The idea is pretty cool, and it does provide a way to get photos into your iPad until that Apple Camera Connection Kit actually hits the stores. The slowness I’m talking about in the previous paragraph is not a fault of the app, but the fact that Bluetooth is being used for the file transfers. It doesn’t have anywhere near the speed of Wi-Fi, but you will be able to shoot and transfer photos anywhere; there’s no need for the two devices to be on the same Wi-Fi network.
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Wouldn’t it be faster to take a picture on the iPhone, put it on your iDisk, then use the iPad to fetch it from the iDisk? Of course, this does require MobileMe but isn’t cloud computing the future? I know it won’t work unless your iPad has internet connection.
You can also send it as an MMS and retrieve it from the iPad.