ALL LCDs will do this if pressure is applied and whatever material is covering it is even slightly flexible. It has nothing to do with the fact that it's a touch screen.
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iPod touch iPod Touch 4G Screen Distorts Under Pressure: Video
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ALL LCDs will do this if pressure is applied and whatever material is covering it is even slightly flexible. It has nothing to do with the fact that it's a touch screen.
Cool. I just saw it earlier today and thought it would be great to get one for my 2-yo grandson.
I totally agree with you. Smartphones/ iPod touches/ tablets have great educational potential for young children, so it shouldn't be wasted by denying them until they get older. Teach them young.
It's because the screen is now so closely fused to the glass, and the glass itself is less stronger than previous generation. Again, it's the Apple's reducing production costs even more...
I tried this and you really have to be pressing really hard for it to happen on my unit. It happens on the 2G version also, again if you press really hard.
Maybe, but as shown on the YT video, it's more likely to happen in the new touch, than iPhone4 or previous gen touch.
ALL LCD SCREENS DO THIS. MY IPOD TOUCH 3G DOES THIS TOO.
Sorry for all the yelling but i had to make a point
Sorry for all the yelling but i had to make a point 
It's also not a "problem". LCD is a LIQUID crystal display, thus you see the "water" effect as a result of the liquid being disturbed.
Assumes facts not in evidence.
Also, don't mash it like that people. Seriously, are people on this forum 2 years old or something? Oh, wait, even 2 year olds can use it without doing that. Maybe we have some 1 year olds on the forum.
Also news: If you mouth it and drool all over it, you may cause problems. Also, if you throw it repeatedly against the floor, you might break it. Really people.
Please don't lie or do not post before reading the first post (inc. provided video ). Author of this thread actually gave a YT link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPtwGfzchA8 with clear evidence that touch4 has the weakest screen glass of all the iOS devices he tested, and he tested touch4, touch 2/3gen, and the iPhone4.
Nope. First of all, you can't link this definitively to the strength of the glass. It may have to do with the bonding between the glass and the screen (they weren't directly bonded in prior touches), or the screen itself (totally different panels in the two models with screens that are bonded as you yourself have helpfully pointed out).
Second, and more importantly, you said:
You have given no evidence it's more likely to happen because there IS no evidence it's more likely to actually happen outside of someone sitting on a youtube video pressing absurdly hard. As I said, even a 2 year old apparently has enough motor control to use an ipod touch without this "problem" occurring.
This is just more pointless carping that has only a tenuous grip to actual use. I can't even try this one out because I'm not willing to press on the screen THAT HARD. Don't store your ipod touch loose with an icepick is my suggestion. Your toilet tank is also a bad place to store one.
YOU need to get a grip. the touch is fine, except for use by paranoid-anal-perfectionists of epic proportions who won't be happy with ANYTHING. You must drive those around you, CRAZY!!
The 8GB touch is a killer pocket PC. I have several friends at work who bought last year's 8GB version for use on the job. They downloaded job related software and references and use it constantly at work. You can't beat that functionality for the price.
Of course, YT vid is only testing done by one person, but it doesn't change the fact it's something worth a thought. That video is better proof than any talking here by you or me. I'm not saying we have a 100% proof, but I think it may be true that glass in the new touch is weaker and screen can be pressed much easier than on previous gens of that device. iFixit teardown actually somewhat proved it by showing that in new touch, screen is fused to the glass very closely, much closer than it was situated in previous gens. That might give us a worthy point. Of course more people have to test it and we all see how much is it of a problem.
yup. remember when Jobs announced the very FIRST touch? he proclaimed it to be the "funnest iPod yet". can't argue with that!
Vaguely. I try not to let Jobs' pronouncements pollute my mind.
LMAO!!! good point!
are you serious burg calling people 2 year olds?! the dude that made the video is showing how the ipod/iphones devices compare with the same amount of pressure placed on them!!(he isnt saying try this your selfs because the thing is busted and he is going to go and return it for a new one or throwing a fit about it). to me looks as if mr borg has experience with many idevices so he knows what he is talking about, and he also clearly demonstrates it in his video.
Yeah, that video is something completely different, a pretty obvious screen defect.
With the OP's video, you basically have to jam your finger onto the screen to see what he shows. You'll never see it in anything even remotely resembling normal use.
Thanks. It just proves a theory that display is fused to the glass so closely that sometimes it's super easy to make it behave like this, even when slightly pressed. Exchange your iPod as soon as possible