Apple has refreshed its iPod Touch lineup, but repairing the new 16GB edition remains a challenge, according to an iFixit teardown. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a ...
How do we know the new iPod touch began shipping yesterday? Because iFixit’s gone and torn it apart already. That’s right, the fifth-generation device has received its customary teardown, revealing ...
For its fifth-generation iPod touch, Apple stretched out the screen to 16:9 proportions and shaved off a millimeter of thickness. But while the extra engineering resulted in an improved device, iFixit ...
A brand new iPod touch has ascended from the depths of Apple HQ, and as sure as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West, iFixit has torn the thing apart with heat guns and spudgers. If you ...
Both Apple's second-generation iPod touch and fourth-generation iPod nano are expected to be widely available at Apple Retail stores today. The folks at iFixIt have already snagged one of each, tore ...
“Sneaky, sneaky Apple,” said iFixit's chief information architect, Miroslav Djuric, in an e-mail announcing iFixit's teardown of 5th Gen iPod Touch 16 GB. “Thought you could pull a fast one on us by ...
So your precious iPod kissed the pavement, shattering its screen. Are you better off buying a replacement, or can it be repaired? Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, ...
Apple's sleek, touchscreen-based iPod Touch player looks a lot like the iPhone, but a fresh disassembly has revealed a surprising number of internal differences, including a more easily repairable ...
In the area of where the rear camera would be, the new iPod touch has a small void, while some of the flex cables have also been rerouted slightly. In addition, with the microphone no longer needing ...
“This thing is thin!” says iFixit CEO Kyle Wiens, who just performed a teardown of the 4G iPod touch. “So thin that there is literally no room for the 5 MP camera in the iPhone 4.” Here’s what he ...
iFixIt has been dismantling the iPod touch in its usual style. Unfortunately, it was less easy to put the new iPod back together: the site claims that the new iPod touch is: “More difficult to repair ...
Now that the iPod touch and the iPod nano have been announced and released, eager tech hounds wanting to know all they can about the devices have cracked them open, literally! And while we can now get ...