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iPod touch 4G Review - Hardware

2010-09-10
okay so let's go I can give you guys a hardware overview of the iPod Touch 4th generation um and on the whole of it I wouldn't spoil right now it's a very slick very well-built piece of hardware I mean literally the build quality as you expect from an Apple device is next perfect I mean the the scenes here are just unbelievably small I mean there's there's no seam here really the home button it clicks pretty well as I should a little bit different from previous home button so it doesn't have a whole lot of give but again not a big deal and of course you do have that VGA front-facing webcam for FaceTime which does work pretty well do that quality on that I'm so flipping it over here it is extremely thin which is something that I really do like you know obviously thinner is usually better in devices like this and iPod Touch 4th generation is no exception although I will get into that in a minute there are they did make a couple sacrifices I'm so on the left side you have your volume button so there are actually two separate buttons as opposed to the single button and the previous ipod touch so you can go ahead and click up-and-down pretty you know pretty standard stuff I'm now looking at the top of the device actually is a pretty decent change instead of having a home but I mean the sleep/wake button here is now over on the right and as you can see here well I'm actually not a big fan of the new home buttons let me just zoom in a little bit so you guys show you um looking from the side did you see here it doesn't really pop out and especially looking from the front you can't see at all so before you actually go ahead and see it there's a lot of room but really if you're trying to do like this you can't do it from the front you really have to put your hand behind it to click it and I mean it's it's pretty decent you know I'm go ahead and click it pretty easily but I just do not like the positioning of it and it's really I mean you see the hardly you know raises at all so not a huge deal but you know something that I guess they kind of did have sex by sit for the thinness so on the right side there is just nothing and on the back there's actually a couple of things here and you had the headphone which goes in no problem I'm you have the 30-pin connector and again actually it's another thing I think that they kind of as they did have to sacrifice for the to get it so thin the 30-pin dock connector does not go in that well that's not the kind of something I really can't show you it's just kind of something that you'll learn but it just doesn't seem to go in very well as with like the previous I pause brinch any other iPod or iPhone I've ever used 30-pin dock connector in and out and no problem hello with this one you do have to put some pressure behind it and it almost feels like you know you're gonna break it so yeah again not a deal breaker but just these little tiny tiny things do kind of annoy me a little bit I guess but yeah not a big deal over here we do have the speaker uh it's okay it's easily you know it's easy to go ahead and cover up which totally ruins the sound but you're obviously not going to be using the speaker that much most time you will go ahead and plug in a pair of headphones so not a huge deal so go ahead and flip it over to the back it still does has this very shiny metal as you can see here I've had this for next to no time at all and there are quite a few really tiny scratches so I definitely do recommend go ahead and buy yourself a case when you get your iPod preferably buy them before or at the same time so you just you just go ahead pull it out of the box and drop it straight into a case so go ahead and just take a look here there is of course the 720p camera so it does it does do decent stills and of course you go ahead and take a look at the camera and the still camera as well as the video quality and the main video but um it's pretty decent camera and it's actually very very small which I'm surprised they actually can pick up any light at all with that tiny little lens and of course you do have the microphone so there you go guys that is pretty much it for the hardware overview of the iPod Touch 4th generation I'm very impressed with it I like the thinness it's very very nice to hold my hand on there just a couple of issues namely defected the power button not a big fan of that whatsoever and 30-pin dock connector is it's a little tighter than I would like it's just you know it I just don't like the feeling of you know it feels like I'm gonna break you want to try to insert the connector so and overall though my impressions of the iPod Touch 4th generation the hardware wise very very positive definitely do love the look the feel all that kind of stuff so I'd have to give it a thumbs up you
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