They won’t stay dead! Despite all of the anecdotal evidence prior to September’s event announcing new iPods, the iPod touch still doesn’t have a camera. But that may be changing soon enough, if a new rumor is to be believed.

The Examiner is quoting an “inside source” who claims that a new iPod touch model will arrive next spring with the same video-only camera capability as the fifth-generation iPod nano, which landed at the same event in September.

Popular belief in the rumor mill holds that the iPod touch released in September was originally intended to include the camera, but the feature was scrubbed just before the announcement due to bad parts. Rather than delay the release, the decision was supposedly made to release the unit sans camera.

After the release, a teardown of the 2009 iPod touch disclosed that the unit indeed featured the space necessary for such a video camera, as seen in early prototype models that circulated around the Internet in advance of the release. A number of third-party manufacturers also had new case designs showing a hole for the camera as well.

If the iPod touch does get a spring refresh, it will be the first since February, 2008 when it received a mid-cycle bump with double the memory. Historically, Apple has otherwise only added news features to the touch once a year, at the September events.