New iPod Touch Has Bluetooth Inside

The new iPod Touch announced on Tuesday has a hidden extra which joins the new hardware volume controls, speaker and curved metal back: Bluetooth. The guys over at Mac teardown shop iFixit took one of the new Touches apart in the process of making one of their fix-it guides and found that the wireless chip […]

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The new iPod Touch announced on Tuesday has a hidden extra which joins the new hardware volume controls, speaker and curved metal back: Bluetooth.

The guys over at Mac teardown shop iFixit took one of the new Touches apart in the process of making one of their fix-it guides and found that the wireless chip is a Broadcom BCM4325. This is a single chip solution for Wi-Fi, FM and Bluetooth.

This could mean everything or nothing. The FM radio will probably never be activated, but the Bluetooth, which supports 2.1 + EDR could be useful. We assume that it is being used to talk to the Nike+ shoe-dongle (a capability built in to the new Touch), but this could surely be activated/hacked for VoIP, too.

Disassembling iPod Touch 2nd Gen First Look [iFixit]