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What good is GPS in a device without cellular data?
Um, why do you think you need a cellular data plan for GPS? How do you think dedicated GPS receivers like TomToms and Garmins work? The maps are stored on the device itself.

There's no reason you need an expensive data plan for turn-by-turn navigation, and I hope that's not how Apple's setup woks because I was thinking of getting a Touch to use it as a GPS, among other things.

Do you honestly think the screen is cheaper?
He might be referring to the previous generation Touch there, which was a cheaper (but still Retina resolution) screen. Here, it sounds like the assembly is simpler, but I bet the panel is still the same.
 
I'm sure there are a lot of people who prefer repairability over Apple's obsession with thinness.

yea...I highly doubt that. The only people I know who "like" to repair a device themselves are tech geeks and we even get a nice good feeling for diving down and repairing a device like the iPod Touch. It gives us a nice challenge.

The every day person doesn't even know or care to know how to change RAM in their computer. Hell the every day person the iPod Touch is geared for doesn't even know why you would upgrade RAM in a computer and would never even think about it.
 
512MB RAM in iPod Touch 5th gen.

That's 1/2 the RAM as the iPhone 5.

iPod Touch for at least the first 3 generations were at least as fast or slightly faster than their iPhone counterparts cause it was "tweaked" as a gaming device.

Now iPod Touch is the step sister to the iPhone. Never getting the lastest gen specs.

For $299. I can find a very good condition or mint iPhone 4S 16GB. Some of which still have 4-6 months of warranty left on craigslist.

iPod Touches have always carried half the RAM of an iPhone of the same Generation.
 
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