( WIRED ) -- It seems impossible for Apple to put a decent camera into anything but the iPhone , and despite many hopes , both cameras in the iPad 2 are about as rudimentary as you could get without having to load a roll of film in there . In fact , the iPad 2 's camera has more in common with the low-res camera in the iPod Touch than it does to the rather excellent one in the iPhone 4 . WIRED : iPhone 3GS camera does n't suck . 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 . WIRED : Hands-on with Apple 's skinnier , faster iPad 2 . It 's extremely likely that the iPad 2 and the iPod Touch share the exact same camera ( although we wo n't know for sure until iFixit tears one open to see ) . It seems that it will be fine for movies , and bad for photos . Then again , with the camera connection kit you can always just import images from a real camera . And for taking notes , snapping menus or grabbing pictures before grunging them up and sending them off to Instagram , it 'll do the trick . WIRED : Why the iPhone 4 camera is so promising . Still , for a device that costs a minimum of $ 500 , it would be nice to have a better image sensor , rather than these bottom-of-the-barrel ones Apple insists on using . Will we ever get one ? It 's starting to look rather doubtful . Subscribe to WIRED magazine for less than $ 1 an issue and get a FREE GIFT ! Click here ! Copyright 2011 Wired.com .
iPad 2 's camera has more in common with the low-res camera in the iPod Touch . It has 1280 x 720 pixels , which gives a megapixel figure of 0.92 , clearly useless for stills . The iPhone 4 and 4S have an even lower resolution : 640 x 480 pixels.