Gadgetory

hey guys this is Austin after three years Apple's finally released a new iPod touch but is it worth it pick up the iPod and the first thing you'll notice is just how slim it is coming in at a millimeter thinner than the already sleek iPhone 6 the iPod Touch looks just as good as ever design-wise it's basically unchanged which means it looks a lot like a smaller iPhone 6 from the protruding camera lens support layout Apple dropped the dubiously useful iPod Touch loop and add a few new colors including space grey and gold but otherwise it's very similar we've still got a solid 4 inch Retina display like the iPhone 5 and 5s and a standard home button instead of touch ID which is a bit of a shame the real change though is inside the iPod is now rocking the Apple a8 processor from the iPhone 6 which means it should be way faster than the last generation run Geekbench and you'll see it's basically on par with the iPhone 5s and a full five times faster than the last iPod 4 gaming performance in 3dmark again there's a big advantage over last generation and it even narrowly outperforms the 5s in real use the iPod is absolutely snappy absolute multitasking fly and with it running iOS 8.4 out of the box you've got a couple new additions like health to track your fitness gaming is rock solid as well with demos like epic Zen garden really showing off the power that's lurking under the hood demanding titles like vainglory are no problem for the iPod as are lighter fun games like Leo's fortune it might not be a dedicated game console but the new iPod touch handles games as well if not better than the iPhone 6 and 6 plus there's also a new 8 megapixel camera and this is another big step forward Apple tends to put good cameras in the iPhone and the iPod Touch is no exception things are really nicely detailed even with the relatively low megapixel count even without turning on HDR the iPod does a good job of capturing a lot of dynamic range in a renders color nicely with the tiniest amount of depth of field for things like portraits video comes out at 1080p and it's good it likes the smooth autofocus of the iPhone 6 but it has the same impressive stabilization it also has 120 frames per second slow motion just like the 5s which looks good for 720p video we've also got an updated 1.2 megapixel front-facing camera for that selfie action the new iPod Touch is also rocking Apple music right out of the box just like basically all iPhone apps it runs fine on the iPod but while this Green is nice the speaker falls short of an iPhone at $200 for the 16 gigabyte model the new iPod Touch is a much needed update it might not work as a phone but it's a big step forward and design and performance compared to anything else in this price range if you want 90% of the iPhone experience for a third of the price it's hard to argue with the new iPod Touch and it just so happens that my buddy Jon from TLD and I are going to be giving away a pair of these this is going to be a Twitter exclusive giveaway so be sure to follow us both on Twitter we'll be announcing how to enter soon neither guys thank you so much for watching and I will catch you in the next one