Ondrej Holzman The new iPod touch, which went on sale a few days ago, is certainly an amazing piece of iron, but Apple had to make at least one compromise in its production. Due to its "thickness", the 5th generation iPod touch lost the ambient light sensor that provided automatic brightness control.
The absence of this sensor during your testing noticed server GigaOm – the automatic regulation setting has disappeared from the iPod settings, and even in the technical specifications, Apple no longer mentions the sensor.
Phil Shiller himself, Apple's head of marketing, came to explain why this happened he wrote inquisitive customer Raghid Harake. And he was told that the new iPod touch does not have an ambient light sensor because the device is too thin.
The depth of the 5th generation iPod touch is 6,1 mm, while the previous generation was 1,1 mm larger. For comparison, we also mention that the new iPhone 5, which, like the last generation iPod touch, has a sensor, has a depth of 7,6 mm.
well, that's my reason so that it doesn't break in my pocket after a while, as it gets thinner and thinner
It will definitely not break, and in my opinion, the ambient light sensor on the iPod is completely useless..
after the update to iOS6.0, I also don't have the slider to set the automatic brightness - iPhone 4
Yeah? I also have an iPhone 4 and auto brightness works fine for me. I also have iOS 6.0 (10A403)
well, I would prefer it to be 1 mm thicker, which is not at all recognizable...iPod touch 4.g. it's so thin, but for it to have a sensor... hmm
if they'd rather keep it the same thickness and fill the extra space with a flashlight, they'd make a lime, no, we'd rather sacrifice the customer's comfort in the pursuit of a meaningless 1mm... someone has definitely gone crazy here
That's really funny, especially since they put a pop-up button to hang the loop, but I understand that the iPhone and iPod have to be different from each other, so I'm cutting functions as much as possible.
I think they should investigate why this thing costs a whopping 8190 CZK. that's the saddest thing about the new generation iPod
I would go for it for 5 bucks
I would probably be most interested in how you like the new desaturated (bleached) colors? They are now with Nano, Shuffle and Touch. As a bonus, they totally killed the nano with that white frame. I can't help but, apart from the black variant, this year's iPods did not succeed at all in terms of design. But I wonder if it is attractive for young people, because my eight-year-old daughter herself came up with the fact that the colors are terribly washed out.