Hi Keith and others, It may make it easier for you to decide between the 4th and 5th generation iPod Touch models by hearing about some of the things you can do with the 5th generation iPod Touch that you can't do with the 4th generation model. The 5th generation iPod Touch has a 5 megapixel camera in contrast to the 0.7 megapixel of the 4th generation model. Popular apps like TapTapSee that rely on the camera quality to identify objects will work dramatically better with the 5th generation camera. OCR applications require at least a 3 megapixel camera to work -- and that's even the lower limit recommended for sighted individuals using the camera. You can use an OCR app like Prizmo or TextGrabber with an external stand like the StandScan Pro with the 5th generation iPod Touch. The camera on the 4th generation iPod Touch fails for this use by several factors.
The new music apps are using a standard called Audiobus that allows the inputs and outputs of Audiobus compatible music apps to be shared -- you can either use this to record/produce more than one track in an app like GarageBand, or to use the outputs of an Audiobus compatible music app as the input to another Audiobus compatible app. This process cannot work on the fourth generation iPod, which does not have enough processing power. Although techinically it could limp through some Audiobus capable processing, Apple specifically disabled this capability on GarageBand for the 4th generation iPod Touch as being too far below the hardware requirements. (There's a forum post about this on AppleVis). The 5th generation iPod Touch uses a dual core processor and is Audiobus capable. Hope this gives you a flavor of some of the real limitations you'll encounter in the user experience between the fourth and fifth generation iPod Touch. Cheers, Esther On May 30, 6:33 am, Sieghard Weitzel <siegh...@live.ca> wrote: > Hi Keith, > > russ listed most of the features of the iPod Touch Fifth Generation and you > definitely do not want to buy a Fourth Generation iPod Touch any more even > though you can still do so, but I think only a 16 Gig model and it is only > about $50 cheaper than a 16 Gig iPod Touch Fifth Gen. However, the much > faster processor, the much better camera and SIRI alone make it totally > worthwhile to buy the Fifth Gen. > > Regards, > Sieghard > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: viphone@googlegroups.com [mailto:viphone@googlegroups.com] On Behalf > > Of Keith > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2013 3:01 AM > To: apple app list > Subject: a bit confused re: I pod touch on apple store > > Hi, just went to the apple store online and was checking out the I-pod > touch. People have suggested between the Ipod touch 4 and 5 gen but there > is no differentiation between the two. There is only the Ipod Touch with > different memory capacities. > > Is there such thing as an I pod 4th gen and 5th gen, or is that simply the > phones? > > Thanks > > Keith > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. To search the VIPhone public archive, visit http://www.mail-archive.com/viphone@googlegroups.com/. To post to this group, send email to viphone@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to viphone+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
