Honest ipod Touch 5g Review [RED]

Key Takeaways

[Music] in 2001 and now largely forgotten product saved Apple from Extinction it was called iPod Apple was just in the right place at just the right time just a few years earlier Napster had started driving the rise of the MP3 internet boom in one moment the course of history would be changed forever let's take a look at that key moment and that product is called iPod iMac iBook iPod this amazing little device holds a thousand songs it goes right in my pocket through a well thought out advertising and marketing scheme the iPod won the hearts and souls of the masses it Rose apple back from the dead without this Market sway the iPhone could never have been as successful or as influential as it once was and here we are 11 years later the landscape has a world away from the last decade the iPod has become a smartphone without the phone part so it's just simply smart how good is the newest family of the iPod lineup is the iPod still relevant how does it compare with its predecessor what Market is it even meant for well let me answer those for you let's start with the hardware straight up the iPod Touch 5G is a bit of a freak of nature it possesses the iPhone 5's 4in screen and form factor but the camera of the iPhone 4 but in addition to this it has the process of the iPhone 4S right away you'll be able to tell that the screen has a better contrast and is brighter than its predecessor it's now 6.1 mm thin versus 7.2 mm thin and that's extremely thin I'd like to commend apple and their build quality because the iPod Touch 5G feels like a premium device it's also a whole lot lighter the new iPod feels really nice in the hand and it's not as cold to the touch as the older model unfortunately the dock has been replaced with a new pin connector and apple being Apple didn't bother to include an adapter you have to buy that separately which is quite disappointing I've actually heard a lot of people saying they're steering clear just because of this reason as a side note we're only going to take a look at this device as a gaming and multimedia device once you start to compare it with other phones such as the Galaxy Note 2 uh things just fall apart so what about the software it's not the iPod's fault is running iOS 6 it really had no choice I've used both IOS and Android devices for a long time but I could admit iOS felt more together and solid than Android but not anymore ever since the Android 4.0 update things have been a lot different and that's especially true now with Jelly Bean iOS 6 has brought along some very strange bugs they're not deal breakers but are still noticeable but we'll get to that later I'm trying to be fair and honest here but it's my sincere thought that it's as if Apple was trying to keep some of the basic functions of the OS away for the sole purpose of introducing them later simple things such as some application settings being so far away Out Of Reach and outside of the actual application itself other small things such as not being able to quickly toggle Bluetooth and Wi-Fi is also quite annoying at times don't get me wrong it's a wonderful operating system but it's just extremely restricted the new screen is obviously sharp and crisp but the amount of applications that don't take advantage of the extra screen real estate is actually quite worrying but I'm sure developers will quickly get onto that and roll out updates to fix it the app store's intrusive security measures haven't gone away either we're not going to talk about Apple Maps because you wouldn't really be using that and it's not of great use on this device Siri also makes an appearance here and is more banter orientated and fun than Google now but some may prefer the speed of Google 's new voice app for iOS the interface may have been Cutting Edge in the Year 2007 and a couple of years after that but after 5 years it really does feel stale and in desperate need of a facelift you may argue familiarity as a plus point but it's ultimately up to the user to decide onto some more positive stuff you'll be able to notice that scrolling and swiping is a lot smoother than on the previous iPod Touch stuttering is mostly gone except for a few hiccups here and there there are a few other strange glitches like I had my scroll bar disappear and apps close on me a couple of times the music players finally received a facelift in iOS 6 but unfortunately there still no option to disable coverflow it's also annoying to still not be able to add the current song you might be listening to to an on the-fly playlist you still have to go and add songs by searching them individually in general the lack of USIC control is a concern as a musician and Aid music lover I may know a thing or two about audio first up the audio has been altered the base boost selection which is my regular EQ Choice has had the middle base at about 250 HZ increase and the trouble has been cut the external speakers have also been improved they are now louder and feature less treble bleeding unfortunately there's still no custom EQ after 11 years of the iPod there was some strange unexplained problems with my Skull Candy headphones music would randomly stop pause and fast forward for no reason but strangely enough the headphones work perfectly fine whenever I plug them back into my iPod Touch 4G but let's try and move on to some more positive points how's web browsing on this device once again I must congratulate Apple here on the new iPod web browsing is very fluid much more so than the last past Generations Apple's A5 processor does well in terms of smoothness and just edges out a jelly bean device although without looking at them side by side you'd hardly be able to tell the difference of course there's no support for Flash and there'll never will be but enough about that let's move on to [Music] gaming if you don't know already the GPU on Apple's a series chips have always been top shape and there's no exception here gaming is great for just such a device much better than the previous model whether you're a Casual Gamer or a militant sge there's plenty of power to go around once again a bigger screen would definitely enhance the use experience but we're stuck with 4 in although some people may not mind at all so let's talk about the camera the has been drastically updated however pictures are still rubbish just blown up pieces of rubbish this time round low lighting performance is a joke and the noise penetrates past the surface of the pictures and tends to bleed in and mess up the outline of the shapes of the objects this is even true with the flash on for more distant objects however when the camera does get some light in it it's actually quite decent with adequate lighting video is also quite decent for a device of this caliber we must remember that the camera's technology is over three years is old the lack of options in the camera app is quite disappointing but this may not matter because it seems as the camera is just geared towards happy Snappers rather than anyone else so the conclusion the iPod Touch 5G is a decent all-rounded device it is a flagship of a largely forgotten family and performs much better than its predecessors however some minor issues with the software and the Steep price point makes it hard to justify at times what are my recommendations it depends on what you're coming from if you're coming from an iPod 4G and it's working fine and you don't play many games or browse the web that much and just mostly use it for music is probably not worth the upgrade if your phone is not a smartphone and you don't have an iPod at all I would recommend this if you have a newer Android phone you're better off just using a decent music player such as double twist and use your phone for listening to music instead anyway thank you for watching this far and that was just a brief overview of the iPod Touch 5G if you'd like to see more of this alternative Tech kind of stuff just check out more videos 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