The Incredible Shrinking iPod Shuffle
By Tim Somers on Mar 10, 2009 in Featured, General
Apple Downsizes its iPod Shuffle believing that size matters. The third generation iPod Shuffle is due out this week. The iPod Shuffle was already Apple’s smallest iPod, and now they have gone even smaller, cutting this version in half to just about 2 inches long.
They had to remove the buttons in order to get the Shuffle’s size down. The orginal could only hold 240 songs, this new mini version can hold 1,000 songs. The control buttons are now on the ear bud cords. You will also find a cool function called “VoiceOver”, which consists of small audio files loaded onto the player by the most recent version of the iTunes software. Each file contains a computerized voice speaking the title, artist and/or playlist name. The VoiceOver function can do it all in 14 different languages.
Priced at $79, this iPod keeps Apple moving in a direction to dominate the mp3 player world.
Tim Somers
MusicHoncho.com
