For the first time since 2015, Apple has announced a new iPod touch, though you wouldn’t know it by looking at it. It has the same 4in screen, colour selection, and bezel-heavy outdated design. But now it’s fast enough to run
AR apps and Group FaceTime.
Apple has updated the A8 processor in the iPod touch with an iPhone 7-era A10 Fusion chip, the same silicone that powers the low-end iPad. That’s still nowhere near as fast as the A12 Bionic chip in the iPhone XS, but it’s definitely an improvement. Like the old model, the new iPod touch starts at £199 for 32GB, but there’s an extra 256GB option now for £399, in addition to the £299 128GB model. Unfortunately, the new iPod touch ignores many of Apple’s newer…