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With the EMI shield out of the way, we get our first look at the battery.

The iPod Touch 5th Generation is optimized to provide up to 40 hours of music when fully charged.

• That is enough to get you through a standard work week.

Getting at the slew of connectors on the back side of the logic board requires a little bit of careful navigation on our part and flexibility on the iPod's part.

• No iPods were harmed in the making of this teardown. Unfortunately, we needed to pull off the soldered battery connections before we could tilt the logic board up to peek underneath.

A plastic opening tool makes quick work of disconnecting the various connectors on the logic board.

Unfortunately, we can't remove the logic board just yet. There is a ribbon cable routed underneath the battery that seems to lead to the lightning connector.

A quick flick of the spudger is all it takes to disconnect the single antenna.

The antenna is labeled C 2712, with a sub-label of 821-1673-A.

The antenna is located near the top left corner. We believe this is the Wi-Fi antenna.

Our next step is to peel the volume buttons/microphone/LED flash/power button ribbon cable assembly from the rear case.

The rear-facing camera is easily removed from the entire ribbon cable assembly.

We've seen this type of design in previous Apple products. The shift to a single ribbon cable is more cost-effective for the manufacturer, but unfortunately it has a negative impact on repairability.

Replacing one component requires replacing the entire ribbon cable assembly.

The 5 MP rear-facing camera in the iPod Touch 5th Generation uses a five-element lens with a hybrid IR filter and an ƒ/2.4 aperture.

The rear-facing camera records HD (1080p) video at up to 30 frames per second with audio.

• The rear-facing microphone (pictured third) is labeled N 2620

Combined with autofocus and an LED flash, the new iPod Touch provides paparazzi power to the masses.

Next up to bat is the display.

It's no shock to see the glass and LCD are fused. It seems this is becoming the norm for most phones/tablets.

The back of the display assembly is labeled C112377185WF2LLT-A13GJ2A530QAJ3.

The digitizer and LCD ribbon cables remain, along with the home button and rubber gasket.

When comparing the Touch to the iPhone 5 display assembly, it's apparent that this is a much simpler, cheaper design, despite the two having very similar functionality.

In our recent iPhone 5 teardown, we praised Apple for designing a stronger home button. The iPod Touch 5th Generation, however, is another story.

We were somewhat disappointed with the weaker, rubber-membrane design of the iPod Touch's home button.

As we expected, the battery inside the Touch is secured with adhesive.

Fortunately, the notches around the edge of the battery made tactical prying points for our plastic opening tool, freeing the battery.

The iPhone 5's battery utilized 3.8 V chemistry to squeeze every last second of battery life out of its Li-ion power source. Though without LTE sapping all its charge, the iPod Touch didn't require such measures.

This Plain Jane battery provides 3.8 Wh at 3.7 V for a rating of 1030 mAh, a little more than the previous model's 930 mAh.