With the explosion from a feverishness gun and the discerning turn of a plastic spudger, a iFixit group found themselves inside a brand-new, slim iPod Touch. First, a question you’re all asking: how most IMPEL does it have? The new Touch has only 256MB, the same as a iPad as well as half which of the iPhone’s 512MB. That means the lot less can be hold in memory at once, that in spin equates to that any apps running in a credentials will blink out of life much quicker.

The super-slim physique is the reason a Touch has such the crappy camera: the iPhone’s 5MP cam is just too big to fit. There are some additions to a box, though: the Touch right away has a genuine speaker-grill, as if to make FaceTime job possible, and it loses a small plastic RF window upon a back that used to let a Wi-Fi in as well as out. Now the receiver is nearby a glass row.

The vibrator, that was revealed in FCC photographs as well as also pimped as the FaceTime alert upon Apple’s own site, has left similar to an out-of-favor politician from the Stalin-era print. My guess is which it was pulled to keep a price down to $229 in the bottom model.

The other large shift is of march the retina-display, that quadruples a series of pixels on the screen. Right now it is unknown whether it shares IPS (in-plane-switching) tech with a alternative iDevices as well as new iMacs. IPS is what gives a screen an roughly 180-degree viewing-angle.

It looks like Apple has squeezed a lot inside, whilst simultaneously boosting battery-life as well as creation a splinter of the iPod even thinner. I have a perfectly great last-gen Touch but, dammit, now I wish one of these.

iPod Touch 4th Generation Teardown [iFixit]