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The camera, in all its VGA resolution glory. The camera itself is less than 3 mm thick.

Space may have been a factor in not including a better camera. Excluding its mount, the camera in the iPhone 3G is about 6 mm thick. The 5th Gen nano is 6.2 mm thick at its thickest point.

Unlike the nano, the touch, at 8.5 mm thick, could conceivably support an iPhone-sized camera, although it would certainly be an engineering challenge.

In our iPod, Toshiba is the source for the 8 GB of flash memory. On the chip:

• TH58NVG6D2ELA49
• ID8038
• TAIWAN
• 09299AE

It looks like this was made in Taiwan in week 29 of 2009 (mid-July).

Also visible to the right of the Toshiba chip is the rubber mounting fixture for the camera, assumedly to dampen vibrations.

The front of the logic board.

The main ARM processor dwarfs everything else on the board. Similar to previous iPods, we expect this is an Apple-branded Samsung processor.

Here's the markings from the processor:

• 339S0081 ARM
• K4X51323PG-UGC6
• EDE168AG 0928
• APL0378A00
• N1X2XW 0931

The shiny chip is visible from this angle:

• 338S0559
• ATWV0926
• SGP

~ The End ~

Credits:

• Pictures and hardware analysis: iFixit
• Flying to Pennsylvania to take apart the new iPod nano for you: iFixit's summer intern.

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