Цитата от(из) Miner:

I heard through a friend that the ambient light sensor is from a company in Texas....didn't say the name. Does anyone know if this is correct?

He might be thinking of Taos. I've worked with their color and light sensors before, and the pictures do look like their product. But then again, a 6-pin SOIC encased in in optical epoxy could be any company.

Цитата от(из) CityZ:

If you check out iFixit's actual tear-down of the iPad, you'll see that there's just an ambient light sensor there on the one they got. But I do agree that an ambient light sensor doesn't require 24 pins, and that a camera could be there as well, eventually.

Yup, you're right. Didn't cross-check everything. Still wonder why the FCC version gets that chip and connector populated if they didn't put a cam on theirs. It could be just a debug port for non-production versions.

How could you miss the camera there! Upper right corner with right-angle cable and 24-pin connector.

Heyyyyy, the FCC got a camera with theirs! And they've got the BGA chip and connector populated with it. Apple's holding out on us! They probably wanted to save something for version 2. Here's from Step 1 of the FCC pictures. And Step 18 shows the camera loud and clear.

Цитата от(из) CityZ:

...and perhaps converts the raw camera output to USB, and the 6-pin connector brings out the USB input for testing.

Can anyone measure the pad pitch of the BGA? If it's 0.50mm, it would fit the SMSC USB3311 or another in-family. The 24-pin connector there would support the 12 signals for ULPI to a camera.