The price of progress: 2012 iPod touch reviewed
Much has changed since the last time Apple updated the iPod touch. Smartphones have become cheaper and more popular, and free-with-contract models are now available from most manufacturers.
Better screen; better performance; better camera; similar battery life-the newest iPod touch is in every way a substantial upgrade over its two-year-old predecessor; Impressive IPS screen is of the same quality as the one used in the iPhone 5; Camera peg and LED flash cement its position as a usable...
Still no GPS sensor; Ambient light sensor is inexplicably absent; At a starting price of $299; the newest iPod is competing with just about every smartphone and tablet worth owning; and it's priced well out of the impulse-buy zone