Ondrej Holzman Disassembly the new sixth-generation iPod touch, which traditionally performed server iFixit, confirmed that Apple managed to significantly optimize the performance and consumption of the device, because the battery is practically the same compared to the previous model, despite a much more powerful processor. A missing sapphire crystal over the camera lens was also revealed.
The battery capacity increased by only 12 milliampere-hours to 1 milliampere-hours, and since the current fastest Apple A042 processor was used against the A5 chip used in the fifth generation, the performance of the new iPod touch had to be significantly optimized. Even now, Apple promises up to 8 hours of music playback or 40 hours of video viewing.
The rear camera is now also 8 megapixels in the iPod touch, but we can find a few differences against the iPhone. The camera lens is not protected by sapphire, which is more durable than Gorilla Glass or the ion-strengthened Ion-X glass, but it is also more expensive, so Apple apparently left out sapphire in order to keep the price lower along with higher margins. The difference is also in the aperture: the new iPod touch has an aperture with an aperture of ƒ/2.4, while the iPhone 6 has an aperture of ƒ/2.2.
Otherwise, the iPod touch has remained more or less unchanged from the previous generation, both inside and out. Only the missing hook on the so-called loop can be seen. As for repairability, iFixit reports that while components are not impossible to replace, they are very difficult to get to because many of them are soldered together. Score is 4 out of 10.
If we were to look at the suppliers of individual components, the sixth generation iPod touch was discovered to have RAM from Hynix, flash storage from Toshiba, and gyroscope with accelerometer from InvenSense. The M8 motion coprocessor is supplied by NXP Semiconductors, and the drivers for the touch screen come from Broadcom and Texas Instruments.
Although the iPod touch is by far the most interesting of the introduced iPods, it scratches the surface the question is how much should we still be interested in these devices.
