In the meantime, let's have some fun with numbers. Interestingly, that means that today flash is roughly equivalent to where hard drives were four years ago. Don't read too much into these numbers; there's lots of other costs and components to the iPods other than the raw storage medium. It will be interesting to see how performance stacks up against the iPhone 3GS. Getting this iPod open wasn't easy.

Yes, we keep saying that about iPods lately.

Unfortunately, there's not a single currently shipping iPod that isn't very difficult to open. The front glass and digitizer isn't the same as on earlier touches. This is our most popular repair part on the iPod touch. We have these for both the 1st and 2nd generation, and will be adding parts for this one as soon as possible.

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You can see the silver metal retaining clips on the sides of the LCD. There are four clips on the right side, and three on the left. A Phillips 00 screwdriver makes quick work of the screws holding the LCD assembly in the touch. The LCD is very similar, but not identical to that of the 2nd gen touch. The connector on this display is just a tad wider.

We appreciate it when Apple prints the watt-hour ratings on their batteries, it makes our job a lot easier.

Is this a new, faster processor? There are two gigabit packages, for a total of gigabits. The chips looked like that when we removed the speaker, we didn't damage them ourselves. We're not sure if that's just adhesive, or if the packages were actually slightly melted. You can see where the contacts for the battery connect to the logic board, just to the left of the word "APPLE.

An 8 GB 2nd gen touch logic board left and our new 32 GB 3rd gen touch logic board. Both machines have the same basic board design.

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However, on the 3rd gen, the NAND flash is split between two chips, leaving very little free space on the board. According to Broadcom, the BCM supports This is a big deal, as even the iPhone 3GS doesn't support We don't know yet if There's also Bluetooth 2. If they built in the antennas, and if Apple adds software support, you could theoretically stream music to your car stereo without any external hardware.

But that's a lot of ifs. It appears that Apple left in room for a camera in the top of the device. There isn't enough depth for an iPhone-style autofocus still camera, but just enough room for the camera that Apple used in the 5th generation iPod nano. Not enough hardware for you? Just yesterday, we did a teardown of the 5th generation iPod nano. Shameless plug: We sell hundreds of iPod parts for repairing your iPod touch , replacing an aging iPod battery , or fixing a cracked screen.

Badges: Well, I took mine apart and at some point it stopped working.

JailBreaking Your Ipod Touch 3rd Generation

If you're careful it will probably still work if you put it back together mine was more like an autopsy because the touchscreen already didn't respond to input. I was then dumb enough to short the battery hoping the voltage drop would reset it, but now I probably also killed the battery. It could theoretically still be made usable with quite a bit of effort, but it wasn't even that great when it was new. Apple iPod touch 32GB 5th Gen. Apple iPod touch 16GB 6th Gen. Produced by kakaku.

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