What is likely to be supported longer by Apple, iPod 5g or iPhone 4S?

I'm trying to decide if it is better to give my daughter my 4s or buy a new iPod 5g for her. My iPhone is ready to be up graded, so the cost is basically a wash as I would get a new phone and could get trade- in value for the 4s. I just don't know if it would better from a support view to go one way or the other.  Cost to give her the 4s = roughly $300 for phone (I'd upgrade to the 32G phone).  Cost to get her a new iPod = $300 for phone - $200 for trade-in value of 4s + $220 for new iPod = roughly $320.  I understand taxes and other charges abound!  Main question, should I fear one or the other not being supported by apple anytime soon or one before the other?  Thanks!

In the past it seems that iOS update were stopped based maily on memory avaialbe and then on CPU/GPU performance. Sine the iPhone 4S and 5G iPod both have the same 512 MB opf memory they may both be limited to the same IOS cutoff.  However, the 5G iPod has a larger screen/more pixals and memory is shared between operating system and screen. Thus, the iPod may be limited forst. This was the case for the iPad 1. and the 4G iPod. Both have the same processor and memory (256 MB) but the iPad's larger screen/more pixals limits the amount to memory for the operation system. The iPad was stopped at iOS 5.1.1 wheil the 4G iPod stopped at 6.1.5

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