The iPod Touch 2nd Generation
iPod Touch 2nd Generation... more refined
The iPod Touch 1st Gen, was very much like the iPhone 2G (the original iPhone). It was a great concept but making it something that could be mass produced and work was the real task.
The micro-kernal operating system the Touch used was basically perfected by the release of the 2G iPhone, the problem was getting the finger/digitizer/LCD to all work together.
The approach Apple took for the original Touch was similar to the 2G iPhone. In the iPhone they laminated all the display assembly parts together. In the Touch 1st Gen they bolted the upper glass/digitizer/LCd together as one monolithic part.
By the time of the Touch 2nd Gen, the OS had "finger forgiveness" baked in a bit better so instead the display assembly was basically 2 parts and repairs were able to be made more simply.
The upper glass had the digitizer laminated to the bottom of it and those parts were glued to a plastic bezel which is sometimes referred to as a "mid-chasiss".
A cracked upper glass on the 2nd Gen was replaceable affordably. If you dropped your Touch and it developed from the drop a "white out" LCD, the LCD could be replaced uniquely.
The second also had a small piezo electric transducer that operated as a speaker. The transducer is pressed up against the cupped (convex in your hand) backplate and that contact... transducer to backplate made the backplate a resonator for the speaker. Very clever use.
Because there was a built in speaker, Apple included a volume control rocker switch on it's upper left side so you could control volume without having to "open/unlock" the device to make changes.
By the time of the 2nd Gen, the Touch had been fully embraced by adolescents. Think about it, earlier generations might have kept a "diary" to hold personal secrets. In the age of the Touch, the 4 digit lock code keeps Mom and Dad from knowing what you are up to.
Because the Touch has perfect internet connectivity through it's WiFi connection *and* comes ready to send and receive email through any web based account *or* through FaceBook messaging, parents have very little direct control over who there kids associate with on-line.
It is *the perfect* modern age diary.
The way you can tell you have a Touch 2nd Gen in your hand is the serial number is engraved centered over the top of the summary paragraph on the chrome backplate.
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