Apple has been cranking out some great
hardware of late and decided it was time
that the iPod got a little love this
week we saw the release of the Nano the
shuffle and according to Apple the best
iPod Touch yet the new touch boasts some
great upgrades and we can't wait to see
them up close it's teardown time
hi I'm Gwendolyn with iFixit and today
we're tearing down the brand new iPod
touch
looking at this iPod touch you're not
going to notice much difference the only
thing we noticed were the new model
number a 1 5 7 4 and the removal of the
wrist strap peg that used to be in the
lower corner in fact this iPod has the
same dimensions as the previous version
measuring in at 123 point four
millimeters high 58 point six
millimeters wide 6.1 millimeters thick
and weighing just 88 grams it also has a
4-inch Retina display with a resolution
of 11 36 by 640 and a pixel density of
326 pixels per inch getting into our
iPod Touch was very reminiscent of last
year's model however the adhesive seemed
a little more difficult this time around
after we hit it with a little heat and
of course our trusty ice Clack we were
in well sort of there were a few clips
that we had to free and a big EMI shield
preventing us from seeing what was
underneath but our Universal 4
millimeter driver and a Philips triple 0
bit made quick work of all 12 of the
screws holding it in place
finally we start to see the inner
workings of this new touch and it looks
pretty much the same we know there are a
few upgrades in here so we keep digging
after heating and prying we find out we
didn't need to the new touch has the
handy adhesive tabs we've seen in the
iPhone this touch has a 3.8 3 volt 3.9 9
watt hour battery with a rating of 1043
milliamp hour as opposed to the 3 point
7 volt 3.8 watt hour 1030 milliamp hour
battery found in the fifth generation
Touch Apple claims this battery will
give you up to 40 hours of music
playback time or eight hours of video
time next out after the battery is the
Lightning speaker microphone headphone
port assembly which is
still soldered to the logic board so if
any one thing from that long list of
parts breaks on you it means a logic
board replacement speaking of logic
boards this iPod Touch has gotten some
upgrades the last time we saw an iPod
touch on our teardown table it came with
an a5 processor this new version has
skipped the upgrade line a bit and now
has an a8 processor with one gigabyte of
lpddr3 ram interestingly this a 8 has
been under clocked - 1.1 gigahertz per
core other chips of note on the board
are a slightly upgraded Wi-Fi Bluetooth
board the iPod Touch now comes with
Bluetooth 4.1 a whole point one better
than the 5th gen and 16 gigabytes of
toshiba made flash storage with the
logic board out we dug around to find
one of the other major upgrades in the
new iPod touch the rear facing camera
gone is the measly 5 megapixel camera
found in the last generation now we get
an 8 megapixel iSight camera with an F
2.4 aperture capable of recording 1080p
we've come to the end of our teardown
which means it's time to talk
repairability
and iFixit it's our mission to teach
people how to repair everything so we
give every gadget we tear down a repair
ability score between 1 and 10 10 being
the easiest to repair and 1 being the
most difficult the 6th generation iPod
Touch scored a 4 out of 10 and here's
why on the upside while difficult
opening the case and replacing
components is not impossible and the
battery is adhered with pull tabs that
should aid battery replacement but on
the downside many components are
soldered together requiring either a
very difficult or a very expensive
repair if any one part breaks there are
no external screws instead a combo of
clips and adhesives make it difficult to
open the case and finally ribbon cables
connected to the logic board run over
the top and connect to the bottom making
it difficult to remove the board or
disconnect the cables for the complete
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