Overview iPod touch 5G: unobvious need

It passed almost a year since Apple introduced the fifth generation of its world player portable multimedia center iPod touch. Everyone has long had time to get this wonderful machine and it did not have to say - they simply use handheld device and a smile, but to continue swim in doubt on the question of "buy or not", we have prepared a review, opinion, feeling, impression of the iPod touch 5G, which will try to answer one of the the main question: where in your life and activities can settle this handsome and whether he should do in order to spend money on it, especially if you have iPhone.

Naturally, you need to start with the external device and the features set. Externally, the iPod touch 5G is simply magnificent. This is the same apple design in one of the best of its manifestations. Do you remember the feelings when your hands first touched which seemed alien MacBook Air? You will experience approximately the same as in the palm of your hand will be iPod touch.

Perfect rigor and elegance of lines and shapes, even when combined with a few playful colors will still create a tremendous impression. To him want to touch, I want to keep it in their hands, and the reason for that - simply gorgeous body.

In place of the mirror and excessively rounded anodized aluminum surface came. He is very resistant to wear and direct mechanical impact, scratching is not there. Though it was scary, but we shabby in a pocket with keys - everything is OK, as good as new.

By the buttons can not find fault. They are comfortable, just incredibly comfortable.

Absolutely perfect balance of hardness and smoothness. For hard keys 11 of 10.

However, the quarrel with regard to housing still needed. Look at the camera. Although she and a 5-megapixel camera with flash, but it sticks out from the body just terrible - almost a millimeter.

Place the iPod on a flat wooden varnished table, do a "random" movement of the device over the surface, and you are likely to get broader scratch. Everything changes, everything flows: touch scratched before now he scratches.

Not very pleasing to the eye black cap, which hides the antenna of wireless communication interfaces. Yes, the black model is certainly the topic, but to any other - no.

On the bottom you can see the speaker, headphone jack and Lightning. There comes to mind the idea - a new standard Apple connector, which is not replaced for a long time.

Whether we like it or not, but soon forgotten pin 30, and Lightning will be everywhere, including on your iPod touch - the media center with the future.

virtually no front panel iPod touch different from the iPhone 5. The same dimensions, the same simplicity, 1.2-megapixel front camera, exactly the same with the fifth iPhone 4-inch screen with a smart pixels 1136h640 IPS matrix and the corresponding quality Pictures.

We all understand that the new aspect ratio, which appeared in the iPhone 5 and successfully implemented in the iPod touch 5G - standard for Apple for several years ahead. Might be to change the resolution, but the aspect ratio will remain the same for sure. It was at this moment the head revisits the idea - it's really a media center with plenty of relevance for the future.

Better once to touch

All these text descriptions and even pictures can not convey the main thing - the physical sensations when you hold in your hand, weightless, but the super-tech device. 88 grams, 6 millimeters thick! A lot or a little? Check easily. Do you think that your iPhone 5 light as a feather? Assuming that the weight is evenly distributed inside the iPhone 5, it is sufficient to take a saw and cut off a part of it 1/3. The remaining 2/3 iPhone 5 will be equal to the mass of the whole of iPod touch 5G. Cool?

What is 6 millimeters? This is about how to take the already super slim iPhone 5 and grind off with the back of a file even 1.5 millimeter surface. Comparison, of course, bad, but actually pass this exquisite subtlety incredibly problematic. Just hold it in your hand.

In the web we often run across phrases like "would like to see the iPhone 5 was like iPod touch 5G», and we largely in agreement with such requests.

Strap

Apple innovation and revolution! They are visible and felt in many apple decisions, but not in the strap.

Yes, it is thin and still very strong, pleasantly lies on the wrist, it is cool is attached to your iPod using the pop-up button, which operates on the principle of a pen, BUT! Can you imagine yourself going somewhere with his hand dangling on iPod? Complete nonsense.

With the convenience of pulling it out of his pocket? It is still possible (because the buttons on the headphones do not have), but wearing so... thank you.

EarPods-disabled

The delight of seeing recycled unreported and almost to perfection in the devices interrupted when the user unpacks the legendary fresh EarPods - here they are not such as to iPhone 5.

That is, the shape and characteristics are identical to the full version EarPods, but what happened to the microphone and control buttons? No, we understand that this is not a smartphone, and voice - not its main function, but the buttons for what? With their help, we control the sound and to switch tracks. Poor, Apple, bad.

Sound

Let the iPod touch 5G and got circumcised headphones, but it's still EarPods in all its splendor. When writing these lines are already being felt anger flow from an audiophile, but we speak on behalf of mere mortals with simple human hearing. These headphones sound gorgeous. The sound is very clean, rich and voluminous. It seems that you're listening to music through the speakers.

We do not know how many are actually time and effort has been spent on the development EarPods, but it turned out great. And yes, we have something to compare. It's not even about the apple headphones last generation. We are talking about any other gags and tablets bundled with all kinds of Android, and the motley fichefonami players. Once is enough to compare to Apple immediately forgive their greed with buttons and a microphone.

Why did it to me?

So we got up to that fundamental problem, stopping a large number of people from buying iPod touch. How to determine or predict its relevance in everyday life? Will not so that a couple of weeks it will be covered with dust, spending all day on the shelf? Unfortunately, with such a controversial device which at first sight seems unnecessary duplicate defective iPhone, fantasy does not work so well, but it's worth iPod touch appear in your pocket - you do not go back ago.

Who is he, this iPod touch? We believe that it is - the same compensator, eliminating a major and insurmountable in the near future, the problem of modern smartphones. We are talking about the battery operating time.

Our dreams give rise to fantasies in which the smartphone will be more functional and more powerful, but also lose in weight and size. As a result, we get a compromise, but we pay for it battery. Yet on an industrial scale there is nothing more effective than lithium-ion batteries, and their capabilities are very limited.

We want to listen to music, watch videos and play games, while remaining in touch, and iPod touch is willing to do User just that - take care of all energy-consuming processes, removing much of the load from the battery iPhone. It is here that we find its place in a person's life - always in front of your iPhone, ready to take on the first blow your battery from any heavy-handed games, HD-movie or music does not get out of their heads album.