We finally have our hands on the new multi-touch iPod Nano!

The shiny new Nano graced our doorstep early this morning, and we can't wait to see what's inside.

Unlike the iPod Shuffle 4th Generation that we tore down yesterday, the Nano arrived in a more appropriately-sized shipping box.

Apple Model Number: A1366

iPod Nano, meet iPod Nano.

Despite keeping the same price tag as its predecessor, ($149 and $179 for the 8GB and 16GB models, respectively) the new Nano is a bundle of trade offs.

• Gone are the days of click wheels, cameras, and video playback.
• Now is the time for a multi-touch screen [!]. The Nano also features volume control buttons and a sleep/wake button.

There were a few minor form factor revisions as well.

• The 5th Gen Nano sizes up at 3.6" x 1.5" x 0.24", and weighs 1.28 oz.
• The 6th Gen Nano sizes up at 1.48" x 1.68" x 0.35", and weighs 0.74 oz.

  • The new Nano is 67% of the volume of its predecessor, even though its footprint is less than half the size.

The new Nano is more like a Shuffle with a screen than a Nano with multi-touch. The iPod's case design is very similar to iPod Shuffle we took apart yesterday.

Since there were no visible screws, our first inclination was to turn up the heat.

Our lovely heat gun managed to loosen the glue holding the display in place.

Gentle prying with an iPod Nano opening tool around the perimeter allowed us to separate the display from the rest of the device.

And just like that, we open the Nano as if it's one of the tiniest books in existence.

• The front glass on the 6th generation Nano sticks up about .3 mm from the flat face of the outer case. Why, you ask? Presumably the headphone jack. Apple wanted to keep the device as thin as possible, and the curvature of the edges would have forced the case to be thicker for a completely flush glass panel. A thicker case was ditched in favor of the glass sticking out slightly.

Now let's find out what's inside!

With the display still dangling off the side by its ribbon cable, our trusty #00 Phillips screwdriver makes short work of the two screws securing the EMI shield to the Nano.

The inside of the Nano looks very similar to that of the new Shuffle; a tiny logic board and battery sharing the space 50/50.

The display can be removed after detaching the digitizer and display data cable connectors.

The 1.54" LCD screen is equipped with multi-touch, although how anyone is supposed to comfortably fit more than one finger on the display is a mystery.

This LCD features a resolution of 240 x 240 pixels. That's a rather boring 1:1 aspect ratio. It's also a big reduction in size from the 2.2" 240 x 376 pixel LCD from the Nano 5th Generation.

Like its cousins the iPhone 4 and the iPod Touch, the touchscreen, LCD, and front glass are inseparably bonded.

The display assembly of the Nano measures 2.27 mm thick. That's even thinner than the 2.93 mm display on the new iPod Touch and the 3.05 mm iPhone 4 display.

The Nano has a 220 pixels-per-inch (PPI) screen, the highest pixel density on an Apple device aside from the iPhone 4 / iPod Touch 4th Gen. That's almost double the iPad's paltry 132 PPI density!

Yet another connector. This time it's for the headphone jack and power/volume button ribbon cable.

• Using connectors instead of soldering greatly increases the repairability of the device. Thank you Apple.

After removing the single logic board screw, we're finally ready to pull the logic board out.