iPod to Gain a Camera?

Apple rumor sites have been buzzing with speculation about the next iPods also including video cameras, much like the iPhone 3GS.

It’s said that if Apple makes this happen, the bottom has effectively fallen out of the low-end camcorder market. (Though technically, by our definition, they probably still wouldn’t be defined as full-fledged camcorders, since they likely still wouldn’t have a tripod screw.) However, as pointed out in the above-linked articles, you would basically have an all-in-one device for all kinds of multimedia functions (music playback, video recording, GPS navigation, simple web browsing, etc.) in the palm of your hand. Need all this and a phone, and you don’t mind switching carriers? There’s always the iPhone.

My iPod usually lives in my car’s glovebox (I added an iPod interface to my aftermarket car stereo, so I have control over my iPod just like it was a CD changer), but I don’t know if having a camera in my iPod would make me more likely to take it out of the glovebox. After all, I still have my cell phone (that includes a video camera) in my pocket at all times during waking hours (and within arm’s reach the rest of the time.)