The new iPod touch doesn’t have a vibration motor and won’t be giving you a buzz when you get a FaceTime request. Despite Apple initially claiming that the new iPod touch would feature vibration alerts, a teardown by the ever-reliable investigators at iFixit found the necessary components were missing. Did someone at Apple just get confused or was there a last minute change?
The accessibility page for the new iPod touch on the Apple website initially boasted: “If someone wants to start a video call with you, you’ll receive an invitation – along with a vibrating alert – on your iPod touch asking you to join.” But when iFixit pulled the new iPod touch apart there was no vibration motor to be found.
A previous dissection of the new iPod touch by the FCC had led to speculation that there was a vibration motor but iFixit discovered that the part in question is actually a microphone. It also found that the new iPod touch comes packing 256MB of RAM (half that of the iPhone 4).
Apple has been a little confused since the new iPod touch was announced. As well as announcing the non-existent FaceTime vibration alerts, there was the new iPod touch Photoshop fail with images of the iPhone 4 doctored in a rush job to stand in for images of the newly minted media player.
It does make us wonder though: did Apple remove the vibration motor at a late stage? Or was this simply the case of a copywriter getting their wires crossed? Take a closer look at it in our new iPod touch hands on.
Out now | £varies | Apple (via iFixit)
