Original image has been replaced. Credit: Mashable The iPod touch is very cheap for Apple's standards, starting at $199. The cheapest iPhone you can get -- the iPhone 7 which has the same A10 ...

Buying an expensive bezel, a cheap HDMI display, an Arduino, a CAN bus shield, an iPod touch with a ghetto serial interface cable that didn’t work out, a HM-10 BLE module, an iPad 4S ...

but it isn't the cheapest iOS device. Here's how Apple's latest entry-level iPhone stacks up against the least expensive way to get into iOS on a new device — the seventh-generation iPod touch.