iPhone iPod Plus

The company iFixit, specializing in spare parts for iPhone and iPod Touch disassembled regularly for new Apple machines as they become available.

The new iPod Touch , presented this week at the Apple event described here , has not escaped their screwdrivers, providing beautiful pictures and revealing in passing some information but nothing major if not a space left free. ..

The component used for the Broadcom Bluetooth in theory the capacity to FM broadcast. By adding an antenna and if Apple added support software, it would be possible to deliver his music to the car radio without adding external FM transmitter. Beaucoup de ‘IF’ So imagine for a Software Update to this, if this ever happens, it will necessarily be on a new generation of the iPod Touch ..

The analysis also indicates that the iFixit component Broadcom BCM4329 for wireless supports 802.11n WiFi in version. Even the iPhone 3G does not have that possibility, there is no evidence however that there will be a  activation in the future by Apple.

More interesting when we remember the rumors about a possible camera in the iPod Touch. It is estimated that the iPod Touch instead (only?) To slide a photo sensor. This location is 6 x 6 x 3 mm, available from the Broadcom chip and antenna for wireless. By cons, like the iPod Nano is also today launched, there would not have enough depth to a photo sensor auto focus like the iPhone 3G, but the nano’s hold.

Here it is pictured below (click to enlarge):