14 DAY TRIAL // Apple is reportedly planning to refresh both the iPhone and its popular media player, the iPod touch, at an event later this year. Recent hardware leaks indicate that the latter will also be getting a display upgrade, perhaps an even bigger one than the iPhone 5.
The parts obtained by BadGizmo Repair support all the recent chatter about Apple’s next iPhone, including the bigger screen, different internals (such as a new flex cable holding the Home button in place), and the camera modules - front and rear.
Most importantly, the repair shop claims to have obtained the digitizer panel for the next-generation iPod touch. Unlike the iPhone’s touch panel, which reportedly measures 3.95 inches on the diagonal, the fifth-gen iPod touch’s panel tops 4.1 inches, says the source.
“There isn't much detail but it looks like the iPod Touch will be getting a 4.1 inch display,” says the company founded in 2004 as a small iPod repair business, based in Colorado Springs.
“I am hoping that this means the iPhone will also have a larger display,” says one of the founders, who speculates that if the parts are already being made, there’s an offset chance the iPhone 5 could be released in July.
Images of the same parts were obtained by MacRumors, which corroborated BadGizmo’s claims, albeit with an ounce of skepticism, since neither source was able to fully confirm the authenticity of the hardware.
It wouldn’t be strange for Apple to introduce a slightly taller iPod touch alongside the new iPhone 5. The pixel count should be identical, but the form factor is slightly different.
After all, we’re talking two different devices here, one of which is held in landscape mode more often than the other, for gaming and movie watching. Yes, the iPod touch is that device.
