iPod Touch 4 front faceplate seen on camera with…front facing camera.

*Front facing camera slot*…that is. A camera has been rumored for future iPod devices many years running, with each successive iPod release featuring…you guessed it…no camera. But it finally looks like pixel capturing technology will be coming to Apple’s cellular-less iPhone in the refreshed 4th generation. That is, if this leaked image showing a claimed 4th gen case is to be believed. As you can see, at the top there’s a center-aligned cutout precisely the size and shape a camera lens would need if it were in fact included.

Besides the front facing camera, a recent image leaked from a supposed iPod Touch 4th gen case manufacturer shows a rear-mounted cutout for another camera as well. From 0 to 2 in one generation? Hey, it’s possible. I’m just hoping they give us more than 64GB of storage. We’ll find out soon enough. Over the last few years, September has been “iPod month”. Will the tradition continue?

4th Gen iPhone order placed. See you same time, same place this summer.

While newspapers and large organizations would like you to believe they still are the best place for breaking, exclusive news, anyone remotely familiar with the way in which the digital world works knows that many of the “breaking” stories start in short 160 character messages and can be found on Twitter. Sourcing Twitter for major news articles by big media outlets is still somewhat a rarity though is increasing in usage. In contrast, the ultra fast and ever changing tech scene whom stays up to the minute in technology embraced Twitter long ago for breaking news. Because of that, mention that Mobile Review editor Eldar Murtazin recently tweeted about Foxconn receiving an order from Apple for the 4th Gen iPhone seems just as good a source as any “big media trusted source”.

I’m certainly eager to see how Apple plans to further evolve the iPhone platform as well as the how they plan to answer criticisms relating to the App Store’s increasingly negative accounts. As for the actual 4th gen iPhone, what it will look like and how Apple plans to reinvigorate the iPhone mania after the 3GS’s rather lukewarm “upgrade” remains to be seen. It’s business as usual however — this summer, same place, same time. See you there.

Ubergizmo