Tuesday, September 12th 2006
New iPod Shuffle announced
The iPod Shuffle has gotten a major make-over as well. Gone is the USB Stick format, gone is the plastic. It has a metal casing with an integrated clip. It is the "worlds smallest MP3 player" and comes in 1GB only. The price of the unit is quite small too: $79. It can be pre-ordered right now, will ship mid-October and will come with a mini docking station & head phones.
Source:
Apple
31 Comments on New iPod Shuffle announced
Edit: Just looked at the other news, I would like to specify that I think the 1G iPod Nano is most attractive!
I spend 90% of my time shuffling through my music. Why add the extra cost of the screen? :) This is about that size.... ;) ever see these suckers? amazingly small.
The cube is fatter than heck....
Total surface area, the ipod shuffle is probably less than 1/3 that huge cube's ;)
Theres many ways to declare smallest mp3 player, and having a screen does not make extra size not mean anything for it. ;)
the idea with the shuffles isnt to have all your music in one place. its your favorite playlist. and while the cube may be even roughly the same size its still huge in terms of normal space. an ipod video sized device is better then a small cube as its thinner, so it fits better in pockets.
actually im going to look at getting one of these. right now i have a sony cd player and nothing else. mp3 players/ipods/cd players are now banned from our school due to the number of hoodlums and rich kids (do the math). i need somthing i can easily hide. i just realised they dropped the 512mb and 2gb versions...thats no good. i guess they want u to get the higher end if u want more storage.
But I will probably get a shuffle because the clip and nice grey.. and 1gb for $79.... pretty dang nice :D
also, good for athletes/runners and stuff. especially with the clip. and the price....
Every new Ipod shuffle comes with the blood of the 6 year old that worked 20 hours a day to make it! Enjoy.
On a side note, atleast they have work... but I'm sure you'd prefer them not to have a job at all right? :laugh:
We need to trade some of them for some of the lazy ass americans around here...
i'm honestly considring buying it. simply because i work out a ton (jogging, raquetball, etc) and my zire72 pda + stenn. hd202's are WAY too bulky. like huge bulky.
mine-
causes it's own speaker to make that beepity-beep noise that gsm phones do to speakers, making it impossible to hear people sometimes
constantly drops calls for no reason
restarts itself randomly
extremely slow operating system
my friends-
slow as well
shut down by itself
he's only had his a few weeks, so he hasn't seen all that is to see about the phone. And before you go blaming it on how I take care of the phone, I always carry it in my belt clip, it's never bouncing around my pocket. My previous phone lasted me over 2 years, and it was a cheap free phone. I'm sorry to go off topic, but the razr is a cheaply made piece of crap.