Apple’s new future open video calling standard FaceTime, is great for having a one to one conversation with your loved ones, and now that we know it even works at 36,000 feet up in the air, the technology has become one of the main selling points surrounding iPhone 4, sans that gorgeously 326 pixel-per-inch Retina Display.

Today however, @BoyGenius is reporting the technology may soon make its way to both iPad and iPod. Sure, we knew this was pretty inevitable … after all, its not as if FaceTime is hard to implement.

But the iPad doesn’t even have a front-facing camera yet, nor do any current rumors place the device as getting one in the near future, so suffice to say, we were a bit surprised to read the feature could be headed to the product line pretty soon.

The site claims that they’ve heard from a trusted source close to Apple that the feature is headed to both the iPad and iPod product lines, although no time frame was given as to its arrival on each device.

Boy Genius explains how the feature could work:

One of our reliable Apple connections (not Jason Burford) just let us know some pretty fantastic news. It’s been widely assumed that Apple will start to roll out their FaceTime real-time communication protocol to more and more of their mobile devices (and possibly their computers), but until now, we’ve been in the dark on how this will actually work. After all, there are no phone numbers to call on an iPod touch or iPad. Here is how we have been told FaceTime will work on non-iPhone devices:

It’s actually pretty simple… Your Apple ID will be registered with your device/s, and that will allow other Apple devices to start a FaceTime call using your email address. Apple will also reportedly make use of push notifications to deliver these incoming FaceTime connection requests as we have been informed there is a push notification detector tied into the FaceTime frameworks in the new iPhone OS 4.1 beta. We’re not sure how Apple will handle an iPod touch trying to connect to a FaceTime session on an iPhone as it seems Apple would still require you to use the iPhone’s phone number, at least that’s how it seems currently. In all reality though, we’re pretty confident Apple will make a straight forward and unified way of talking to every eventual FaceTime-enabled Apple device or computer, and it might be an Apple ID, or possibly something else down the road.

[@MacStoriesNet via @BoyGenius]