New iPod touch reportedly uses A5 SoC, Apple posts official user's guide
Apple on Tuesday released a digital user's guide for its fifth-generation iPod touch, while a separate report allegedly ran a benchmark on the new device to find an A5 series processor clocked at 800MHz, providing performance on par with the iPhone 4S.
Purported iPod touch specs. | Source: Mac Otakara
Japanese language Apple blog Mac Otakara posted screenshots purportedly from the app "System Status" running on a fifth-generation iPod touch, revealing some of the new media player's specifications.
If the images are to be believed, the iPod is running an Apple A5 system on chip based on ARM's Cortex-A9 architecture, with the same clock speed and on-board PowerVR GPU used in last year's iPhone 4S.
Further details show a display resolution of 1,136-by-640 pixels, with a pixel density of 326 pixels per inch, matching the recently-released iPhone 5's 4-inch Retina display. Unlike Apple's latest smartphone, however, the iPod touch carries a 3.7-volt battery delivering 930mAh of power, slightly less than the 3.8-volt 1,434mAh cell found in the iPhone 5. This is to be expected as the iPod doesn't need to run power-hungry cellular communications components.
As for the iPod touch cameras, the rear-facing shooter appears to be a 5-megapixel part, while the front-facing unit used mainly for FaceTime calls over Wi-Fi comes in at 1.2-megapixels.
Apple also released the official user's guide for the newest iPod touch, which can be downloaded for free from the iBookstore. While the digital publication offers little in the way of new information regarding the device, it provides an in-depth look at what customers can expect when the product begins shipping later this month.
Purported iPod touch specs. | Source: Mac Otakara
Japanese language Apple blog Mac Otakara posted screenshots purportedly from the app "System Status" running on a fifth-generation iPod touch, revealing some of the new media player's specifications.
If the images are to be believed, the iPod is running an Apple A5 system on chip based on ARM's Cortex-A9 architecture, with the same clock speed and on-board PowerVR GPU used in last year's iPhone 4S.
Further details show a display resolution of 1,136-by-640 pixels, with a pixel density of 326 pixels per inch, matching the recently-released iPhone 5's 4-inch Retina display. Unlike Apple's latest smartphone, however, the iPod touch carries a 3.7-volt battery delivering 930mAh of power, slightly less than the 3.8-volt 1,434mAh cell found in the iPhone 5. This is to be expected as the iPod doesn't need to run power-hungry cellular communications components.
As for the iPod touch cameras, the rear-facing shooter appears to be a 5-megapixel part, while the front-facing unit used mainly for FaceTime calls over Wi-Fi comes in at 1.2-megapixels.
Apple also released the official user's guide for the newest iPod touch, which can be downloaded for free from the iBookstore. While the digital publication offers little in the way of new information regarding the device, it provides an in-depth look at what customers can expect when the product begins shipping later this month.
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Based on the components used I'm guessing they are short on displays and putting them in iPhones first.
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Originally Posted by cycomiko
When can i actually buy it... oh 'later this month'. over a month after public release, with no real indication of availability.
Ain't life just a bitch? :- /
/s
I mean nobody! NOBODY can come close to making anything close to this except for Apple.
Also expect people to start seeing if the purple bloom shows up with the camera on this device. Wait and see. They will start comparing the camera to the iPhone 5.
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Originally Posted by tylerk36
I mean nobody! NOBODY can come close to making anything close to this except for Apple.
Also expect people to start seeing if the purple bloom shows up with the camera on this device. Wait and see. They will start comparing the camera to the iPhone 5.
umm Samsung can. They did it with the iPhone.
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Originally Posted by Jivanile
umm Samsung can. They did it with the iPhone.
No.. they aren't close at all.
Remembering that the previous generation iPod Touch has the same A4 Chip as the iPhone 4 and that Apple stated the exact same performance gains on the iPhone 4s, it seems logical that the latest generation iPod Touch uses the same chip with the same clocks as the iPhone 4s.
The only question I'm asking myself is whether Apple took the A5 chip to the 32nm process (like the iPad 2,4) or not.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I did not get this article, at least the first part.
Reportedly? You didn't watch the event, right?
http://www.apple.com/ipod-touch/features/
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Originally Posted by Ireland
Reportedly? You didn't watch the event, right?
http://www.apple.com/ipod-touch/features/
exactly! i came here to say the same thing. it also reportedly has a 4" screen.
I'm also curious as to why the writer of this article seems to have ignored the fact that all this information was announced and well known.
Oh my God! A5? If these photos are to be believed, Apple shipped exactly what they said they would!
"New AppleInsider article reportedly uses facts"
Also, I love this part where 930 is slightly less than 1434.
Downhill, downhill this place goes.
Master of The Obvious!
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Originally Posted by notreallyhere
"New AppleInsider article reportedly uses facts"
Also, I love this part where 930 is slightly less than 1434.
Downhill, downhill this place goes.
Yeah, that's embarrassing.
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Originally Posted by pedromartins
No.. they aren't close at all.
I didn't think anyone would actually dispute what I said as it was said in a sarcastic tone. He said nobody can make this but Apple and I said Samsung can because of the fact that they like to design their products as blatant copies of others work. Don't worry we are not all against you.