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New iPod Touch Teardown Confirms 1,043 mAh Battery and 1GB of RAM

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iFixit has posted a detailed teardown of the new sixth-generation iPod touch, confirming that the device has a 1,043 mAh rated lithium-ion battery and 1GB of SK Hynix LPDDR3 RAM. Comparatively, the fifth-generation iPod touch released in 2012 had a 1,030 mAh rated battery and 512MB of RAM.

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The teardown also provides a closer look at the new iPod touch's Apple A8 chip and M8 motion coprocessor (NXP Semiconductors LPC18B1UK ARM Cortex-M3 Microcontroller), Toshiba NAND flash memory, InvenSense MP67B 6-axis gyroscope and accelerometer, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi module, Broadcom and Texas Instruments touchscreen controllers and other components.

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The new iPod touch received a relatively low repairability score of 4 out of 10, with ten being the easiest to repair, due to several components being soldered together, no external screws and ribbon cables that are difficult to remove. iFixit has posted detailed step-by-step teardown instructions for the new iPod touch and sells the required tools and parts for most do-it-yourself repairs on its website.

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What a tiny battery, no wonder the battery life is the same! Where did the A8's efficiency go?

EDIT: The main selling point of the A8 was that it was 50% more power efficient than the A7, and the iPhone 6 used that efficiency to compensate for the increase in display size. Since the iPod touch's screen size remained the same, shouldn't battery have improved a bit?
 
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Andres Cantu said:
What a tiny battery, no wonder the battery life is the same! Where did the A8's efficiency go?
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The A5 in the prior model was clocked at only 800 MHz whereas the A8/M8 in this one is clocked at 1.1 GHz. Plus it also has double the RAM which evidently dings battery life a bit as well.
 
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I almost ordered one of these because I require a slightly smaller, surreptitious form factor when taking pictures. However after reading this about the front facing camera on iFix it I have to pass:

Physical size serves as a pretty accurate of relative quality. Despite the equal pixel count, the Touch's camera lacks some of its cousin's finer features, such as the sapphire crystal lens cover and auto image stabilization.
 
Pakaku said:
iOS 9?
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I guess it's possible, Apple did claim an extra hour of battery for iPhones.

Lancetx said:
The A5 in the prior model was clocked at only 800 MHz whereas the A8/M8 in this one is clocked at 1.1 GHz. Plus it also has double the RAM which evidently dings battery life a bit as well.
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While I was referring to the A8's efficiency over the A7, I can see what you mean. All that extra power eats away at any improvements in battery life, but it doesn't explain why the iPhone 6 takes advantage of that efficiency for its larger screen while the iPod touch doesn't seem to.
 
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The A5 in the prior model was clocked at only 800 MHz whereas the A8/M8 in this one is clocked at 1.1 GHz. Plus it also has double the RAM which evidently dings battery life a bit as well.
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It's not as simple as that though. Memory already is among some of the least power hungry modules, and hitting the cache that this level is much less taxing than having to hit the HDD (or whatever the main storage is).

I really wish folks would stop using that argument because the implications are much more nuanced than that.
 
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Even the iPhone 5/5S had a bigger battery with the same size display. Apple must have done some hardware magic with the A8/uwotM8 in order to get the same battery life. Like, it has 500 mAh less than the iPhone 5/5S had.
 
I'd venture a guess these are the same internals as the Apple TV refresh that was rumoured to happen over WWDC
 
soupcan said:
Even the iPhone 5/5S had a bigger battery with the same size display. Apple must have done some hardware magic with the A8/uwotM8 in order to get the same battery life. Like, it has 500 mAh less than the iPhone 5/5S had.
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But no cellular connection. That's got to use a lot of juice.

(I'm they did a bit of magic with the A8 too!)

Gary
 
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