I had an Ipod Touch 4th gen when It was new. Let me tell you, you don't want one of these as your music device. #1. Don't drop it. Ever. At any height. Even 1 foot with a case on is enough to potentially shatter the screen. And once its shattered, its not long until the digitizer (the thing that recognizes finger taps) stops working too. #2. So you say you want to replace your shattered screen? Good fucking luck. This one is horrendous to work on. #3. Battery life. Luckily batteries are quite good, but if you ever need to replace this one, good luck. You have to take the entire thing into pieces and hope you don't destroy the digitizer cable, camera cable, battery cable. You also have to hope you don't bend or crack anything while prying the glued in battery. Then you have to put it all back together again, and re-glue the screen to the body. #4. Home buttons. There's like a 50/50 chance it will break and become useless. Then you have to rely on the accessibility shortcut to use your home button, since there's no way of not using the home button to operate the thing. #5 storage. You cannot upgrade it, unless you're a small electronics genius and de-solder the chip from the motherboard and solder on a new one. Honestly, I wouldn't bother with this one. Just get a 5th gen or higher ipod classic. If you're really set on the touchscreen, skip the 4th gen and get a 6th or 7th so you don't need to service it. Even the 5th touch would be better. Or even the nano 7th gen
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I have a 2nd Gen Touch that I plan to use for old iOS games.
The home button on that touch is rough
I had an Ipod Touch 4th gen when It was new. Let me tell you, you don't want one of these as your music device.
#1. Don't drop it. Ever. At any height. Even 1 foot with a case on is enough to potentially shatter the screen. And once its shattered, its not long until the digitizer (the thing that recognizes finger taps) stops working too.
#2. So you say you want to replace your shattered screen? Good fucking luck. This one is horrendous to work on.
#3. Battery life. Luckily batteries are quite good, but if you ever need to replace this one, good luck. You have to take the entire thing into pieces and hope you don't destroy the digitizer cable, camera cable, battery cable. You also have to hope you don't bend or crack anything while prying the glued in battery. Then you have to put it all back together again, and re-glue the screen to the body.
#4. Home buttons. There's like a 50/50 chance it will break and become useless. Then you have to rely on the accessibility shortcut to use your home button, since there's no way of not using the home button to operate the thing.
#5 storage. You cannot upgrade it, unless you're a small electronics genius and de-solder the chip from the motherboard and solder on a new one.
Honestly, I wouldn't bother with this one. Just get a 5th gen or higher ipod classic. If you're really set on the touchscreen, skip the 4th gen and get a 6th or 7th so you don't need to service it. Even the 5th touch would be better. Or even the nano 7th gen