DIY enthusiasts who love to do their own repairing and tinkering of gizmos underneath the hood will not be too pleased with the latest 16GB iPod touch, since anyone who decides to do so will run into similar challenges that plagued its prior versions. Popping open the iPod touch in the first place is quite a challenge, not to mention Apple having crammed in a bunch of components all onto a solitary cable.
In fact, the logic board, front-facing camera, battery, Lightning connector, headphone jack, speaker, and home button have all been soldered together, resulting in final repairability score of 3 out of 10, which at least is two points higher up the scale that the Surface Pro 3 from Microsoft’s score.