The other visible design flibble is that the camera lens housing sticks out approximately 1mm from the rear of the player. The cheapest 5th generation iPod touch you can get is the 32GB edition, which costs £249.99. On the bottom of the back of the iPod touch is a little retractable metal circle designed to hold in place the Loop lanyard that is included.Īpple seems to have introduced the lanyard to make the iPod touch more kid-friendly, although equally this is countered by the ditching of the 8GB and 16GB lower-cost versions of old. The most obvious is the Loop, and its holder. There are a few parts that are more likely to put a few people off, though. The only seam on show here is the screen surround’s outline. Like the iPhone 5, the 5th generation iPod touch is backed with a sheet of aluminium, and here it snakes around as a single piece to meet the glass layer that protects the display.
Without it, this £250 wafer-thin slice of tech might just feel that bit too feather-like.
The well-defined sides lend the device some substance. The new iPod touch is a very slender rectangular brick, less curvy-backed than its predecessors. It’s the build and the player’s lines that count. However, the pedantic variances in weight and thickness are not what defines this version’s in-hand experience. It’s just 88g in weight, 13g lighter than the last model. This is Apple’s thinnest and lightest iPod touch yet. It’s a little taller than the last generation at 123mm long, but with virtually the same width, it won’t cause smaller pockets or hands any issues. The iPod touch 5th generation for 2012 doesn’t radically change the status quo, but gives the player some of its own new design tweaks, without ruining what was so great about the device in the first place.Īpple’s most important design change in the iPod touch 5th generation is that it now features an elongated widescreen display, just like the iPhone 5.
However, underdog or not, it revolutionised what people expect from a media player. It was there for people who wanted iPhone goodies, but couldn’t afford the astronomical price of the phone. The iPod touch has always been a bit of a poor relation of the iPhone series.
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