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iPod touch Difference between gen5 and gen6?

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vexorg

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I've been struggling to find the difference between 5th gen and 6th gen. Apple's page doesn't help much
 
6th gen has newer and more powerful internal hardware, rather than any real outside differences, such as having an A8 chip instead of the A5 in the 5th gen. It has a 8mp camera that can also do slow motion, instead of the 5mp in the 5th gen. 6th gen also got rid of the loop thing at the back. Probably some other stuff too that's been upgraded.
 
Outside look pretty much the same. If you look at it from front facing then you can't tell at all. The loop is gone and they gave it an A8. Screen same size. It's an overall improvement beside the same smaller screen.
 
Thanks, will look at getting a 6th gen to keep it up to date
 
Definitely. The 5th gen is painfully slow under recent iOS versions.
 
well I binned my gen 6 after a few days of poor battery usage. my gen 5 is much better.

(not science - just my perception)
 
It's for my son, he has a 4th gen at the moment, and the apps stopping is one problem, the other is the battery life has dropped significantly now.
 
vexorg said:
It's for my son, he has a 4th gen at the moment, and the apps stopping is one problem, the other is the battery life has dropped significantly now.
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Get a 6 gen unless the price on the 5 gen is a steal. Much more capable device. And longer support cos 64bit
 
me7 said:
Definitely. The 5th gen is painfully slow under recent iOS versions.
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I have both and the the 5th generation still works great and isn't painful with iOS 9. Most of the time I can hardly tell the difference. The main difference for me is the lack of RAM causes stuff in the background to be dumped too quickly.
 
Thanks, that is useful, odd they call the 6th gen the 7.1, must be a typo.
 
In terms of performance, it's the biggest jump for any iOS device ever, but in terms of design, it's basically the same.
 
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