The Nano got stripped of its bigger screen, video capability, video camera, calendars and games. The Shuffle doesn't have a screen, but the NANO does! ZOMG lets spend 100 bucks more!
But also, they make other current products to make OTHER current products in their lineup to look even better and to give them room for the future so they can make a product that makes your current phone look like a POS. This allows them to make minimal upgrades every year to the system (now with 3G! ZOMG!), which makes the sheep buy it every single damn year.Īpple makes products to make their previous generation look bad. Hell, it didn't even have 3G! But it knew it had other selling points (an actual UI, shocking!) and a top-notch touchscreen. It didn't have copy and paste, no flash support, no memory expansion, no multitasking. When the iPhone came out, it was gimped from the very start. If you thought Apple has never made low quality devices, you clearly have been absent these past 5 years when the iPhone came out.
#Comparing ipod touch prices update#
Epic should have an update out soon that fixes the problem by lowering texture quality to fit within the memory limits of the iPod Touch. Currently Epic’s Citadel demo treats the iPod Touch as an iPhone 4 and crashes before getting into the demo as a result. The A4 in the iPod Touch appears to be a lower clocked version of what you get in the iPad, it only has 256MB of memory compared to the 4’s 512MB. If you’re wondering why I didn’t run Epic’s amazing Citadel demo, it’s because of the next major difference between the iPhone 4 and the iPod Touch: memory size. I ran a few sanity tests to confirm: Apple iPhone 4 vs. The Cortex A8 in the SoC runs somewhere in the 700 - 900MHz range and appears to be the same CPU speed as the iPhone 4. The A4 is an ARM Cortex A8 based SoC with integrated PowerVR SGX 535 GPU. Internally, the new iPod Touch uses Apple’s A4 SoC. The features are the same across all models.
The new iPod Touch is available in 3 flavors: 8GB, 32GB and 64GB. This is very important for our FaceTime discussion later. The 4’s external speaker weighed in at 90dB(A) compared to 78dB(A) on the new iPod touch. To give you an idea, I measured sound pressure 5” above the iPhone 4 and iPod Touch while playing a Kanye West track (Power): External Speaker Comparison It’s enough to listen to music in a relatively quiet room but you’re much better off with headphones. There’s an external speaker at the bottom of the iPod Touch, but it’s not quite as loud/bassy as what you get with the iPhone 4. It’s not the most elegant (or engineering friendly) design, but it does work. There’s a 1/8” output jack at the bottom of the iPod Touch, but the opening is tapered so you actually leave a bit of your headphone connector exposed when it’s plugged in: The new iPod Touch has individual rubber volume up/down buttons on the left side and a low profile power/lock at the top. The buttons are also cheaper than what you get on the 4. It’s comfortable to hold in your hand and honestly the size I wish all smartphones were. The entire device is ridiculously thin, it makes the iPhone 4 feel like a brick.
You get a glass front but a smudgefactory chrome back:
#Comparing ipod touch prices full#
The new Touch comes with a pair of typical Apple earbuds (the ones without a mic or remote!) and a dock cable (no wall power adapter) in a fancy new plastic case:Īpple hasn’t given the new iPod Touch the full iPhone 4 styling treatment. It turns out there’s a lot more than a cellular radio that separates the new iPod Touch from the iPhone 4. With many of the same specs as the iPhone 4, I wondered if the new Touch might be a neat way to get most of the functionality of the 4 without the albatross of a contract AT&T hangs around your neck. The new iPod Touch however piqued my curiousity. While the nano looks cool, it’s pricey and honestly I haven’t been interested in a dedicated MP3 player in about a decade. Last week Apple announced a complete overhaul of its iPod lineup including a new Shuffle, a new Nano (with multitouch screen) and a new iPod Touch.