IPOD TOUCH 5G QUICK REVIEW: DESIGN - SHAPE, SIZES & MATERIALS: New iPod Touch is not just very light and slim. You do not feel it in the hand because of its weight, excluding the tactile sensation of the metal, and the depth of the body is so insignificant that the first time you feel a suspicious discomfort. I guarantee: if the edges would be sharp, the new “touch” could cut not only food, but also a tree. But now the form of back panel exactly matches a cover of MacBook Pro. It is straight on top and sharply curved on bottom. I cannot say that everything fits the hand better than the previous generation. But there is no need to cry.

The front panel is the true face of any device, which user will see more of tens thousands times often. In the tradition of Apple, the face is unnoted and attractive at the same time: almost continuous snow-white panel with a slight bias to the cold shade appeared in iDevice relatively recently, but has become a hit already. At the top of a panel in a typical recess is hidden violet blue eye of camera. Button Home, whose disappearance we promise almost every year, is a familiar place. It presses very tight and quite loudly because of the depth of the miniature and they explained that as the harsh necessity.

Glass is still slightly elevated in compare with the body. You can see the colour of the back panel from the front due to protruding metal “ribs“. They ground off almost to shine at an angle of 45 degrees, what creates a nice light textures. The face seems very sharp to touch, but i didn‘t scratch my hands with it. Yes, I’ve tried.

At the top of the end is hidden a lock button of the screen, which is now set up perpendicular to the body, and not at an angle “somewhere on a back.” At the right at the player is completely empty, and at the left are two separate volume keys which is stick out, at a very small angle at this time. All of these elements are not plastic like in touch 4. They are made of metal the same colour as whole hosting of the back panel.

At the bottom end there are a headphone jack, Lightning-port of connector and five round holes which conduct a sound from a tiny speaker in the housing. The 3,5 mm jack and a speaker has changed their places this year. It doesn‘t affected on easiness of use. Speaker holes closed with a very dense mesh and it if we look ahead, does not have differences in a volume or quality of sound, but will good for sound of toys as background tweeters. There is nothing to say about port of synchronisation: put the cord and go.

Okay, it’s time to turn over. This is the most crucial redesign of the back panel in the history of iPod Touch and probably the most controversial.

Be careful with your wishes. Because one day they can come true and the result may very different from the expected. Many, many years the owners of iPod complained to Apple: they say, why do you put polished to shine steel, if you know that it can be scratched by one squint-eye look? In Cupertino obviously was shocked, the tactile sensation from the metal which processed like that just amazing. And forsake of them their users can suffer the fragility of the housing. The consumer has won at the end: now all the “touches” covered with a flat aluminium panel in the back which is reflecting perhaps just silhouettes.