Continuing on with more announcements, Apple’s new iPod touch has been detailed. The new Touch will be taller like the iPhone 5 and it will also get Siri. Additonally, the Touch will feature a rear 1080p camera and a front 720p camera. Unfortunately, the new iPod Touch does not use the A6 processor found on the iPhone 5. Instead the iPod Touch will use the A5 processor found on the previous iPhone model. With that said, you can check out the full list of specs below:
– 6.1 mm thick, 88 gram (thinnest and lightest iPod touch yet)
– Same 4″ screen as the iPhone 5 (1136×640 Retina Display that has 326 pixels per inch)
– New iPod Touch uses the A5 chip (In contrast the IPhone 5 uses the new A6 processor)
– Not as fast as the iPhone 5’s A6, but still a dual-core chip
– 40 hours of music
– 8 hours of video
– Back facing 5 megapixel camera w/ LED Flash, and backside illumination (versus 8 megapixels in the iPhone 5)
– Capable of recording 1080p video
– iPod touch loop (wrist strap similar to the Nintendo Wii)
– Front facing camera can do FaceTime HD and can capture 720p video
– 802.11 a/b/g/n (802.11n 2.4GHz and 5GHz)
– Bluetooth 4.0 w/LE
– Supports AirPlay gaming via Apple TV
– Now supports Siri
– Available in silver, black, blue, yellow and a red casings
– New headphones (Apple claims 3 years of design went in to this new headphones)
– The new iPod Touch goes for 32GB at $299, 64GB at $399
– Release date sometime in October
Interestingly enough, the 32GB iPod Touch will be $299, which is the same price as the Kindle fire HD. No doubt Apple certainly has a lot of competition cut out for itself in this area. The Touch is expected to be released sometime in October.
Source: live.cnet.com
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Unfortunately, they decided, for what ever reason, to give the touch the A5 and not the A6. I’m sure a lot of people are going to look over look that and not realize that it does not come with the latest processor. At least this iPod comes with front and rear facing cameras. Still somewhat expensive.
Why does an ipod even need an A6? I thought the damn thing was supposed to be an mp4/mp3 player, not a gaming powerhouse or w/e lol
True, but the era of smaller tablets is eating away at that prospect. For the price you can get a google nexus 7 or an amazon kindle fire hd. So, if they don’t keep pace with these other devices despite their smaller form factor, it is an issue for them IMO. Not including the latest processor may put the product further behind the competition.
But that’s another market then. They could have made an itab mini or something to compete instead o turning the ipod from a small media player into a huge one…
Yes, they could have, but again you have to look at the pricing and capabilities. Unfortunately, whether they like it or not the device, price wise, will be compared to smaller tablets that can do the same thing with more power at the same or cheaper price point. The only advantage they have is the size of the device.
Furthermore, if they do release an iPad mini it would have to be priced around 200-300 to compete. Considering they already have the iPod Touch at that price point, I don’t know if I see them going for a mini like that, but I could be wrong.
I wonder how the A5 will cope with the increased resolution…