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New iPod Shuffle moves controls to headphone cord
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... points out that it might be easy to splice better headphones onto the control unit, so long as you're O.K. ruining your beautiful Appley lines.
As an aside, I imagine Belkin will announce an adapter within minutes. I still don't want to pay for one, even if it's just $10.
Great comment from reader Cyklo: "I'm amused that if you swap out the inline-control bundled earphones for your own, you reach Apple Zen: an iPod with zero buttons."
Apple Announces Incredible New iPod shuffle [Apple]
Apple releases new 4GB iPod Shuffle
Boy Genius Report —
Talk about a sneak attack. It’s a little hard to get excited about a new iPod Shuffle but hey, new toys are new toys. The third-generation Shuffle features a completely new design, 4GB of storage and perhaps most notably, the controls have been moved off of the device and onto the headset cord. Cool, yes, but have fun trying to use your current headset with this little guy. The new Shuffle also sports Apple’s “VoiceOver” technology, which essentially is little more than a text-to-speech engine that can speak song, artist and playlist ...
Apple releases new 4GB iPod shuffle
Obsessable News Feed —
... Conversations: Apple Announces Incredible New iPod shuffle [apple.com] ...
Apple updates--and shrinks--iPod shuffle
Between the Lines —
... Apple on Wednesday updated the iPod shuffle, shrinking it and adding a feature that will speak your song titles, artists and playlist names. [image] The third generation iPod shuffle is “significantly smaller than a AA battery,” according to a statement . The latest iPod shuffle is also half the size of the last generation and has 4GB of storage. That’s good news and bad news. The good news is that it’s so small. The bad news is that it’s small enough to lose even more iPod shuffles now (I just lost mine). The iPod shuffle holds 1,000 songs and puts the controls on the ...
Apple's New Shuffle is "Smallest Music Player in the World"
Gearlog —
... Forgoing the manner of fanfare it traditionally employs for product announcements, Apple today announced the latest version of its entry level music player, the iPod Shuffle. The latest version of the Shuffle is almost half the size of its predecessor, "significantly smaller than a AA battery," according to the company. The third generation player is also Apple's first with VoiceOver technology, letting users play songs by speaking the names of track titles, artists, and playlist. ...
New from Apple: iPod Shuffle HAL Edition
Digital Daily —
... . Nearly half the size of its predecessor, this third generation player features a new aluminum design and holds up to 1,000 songs with its 4GB of built-in storage. It also boasts a new VoiceOver feature that enables it to speak song titles, artists and playlist names in 14 languages. “Imagine your music player talking to you, telling you your song titles, artists and playlist names,” Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vice president of iPod and iPhone(TM) Product Marketing said in a statement. “The amazingly small new iPod shuffle takes a revolutionary approach to ...
Apple Intros Update iPod shuffle
Podcasting News —
... Apple today introduced an updated iPod shuffle, the world’s smallest music player at nearly half of the size of the previous model, and the first music player that talks to you. ...
iPod talks, Apple whispers
Brainstorm Tech: Technology blogs, news and analysis from Fortune Magazine » Apple 2.0 —
... there didn’t seem to be any lack of media interest. (See here.)
Wednesday’s announcement of a new iPod shuffle — “the first music player that talks to you” — was a little more challenging. After all, it involved a price increase (from $49 for the 1 GB square shuffle to $79 for the new 4 GB rectangular model) and a new control mechanism that you might have trouble mastering on your own.
No problem. In this case, all it took was a press release and an online video. You can see “Hannah” give her 4 ...
IPod Shuffle speaks up; Apple fans speak out
GMSV —
Steve Jobs’ well-known distaste for control buttons that mar the smooth surfaces of Apple devices has apparently informed the design of the latest iPod Shuffle , and the decision is not receiving the universal embrace from fans that the company might have expected. In its third iteration, the Shuffle has shrunk to slim sliver of aluminum with a 4GB capacity and a $79 price tag. And the new feature that Apple’s most excited about is VoiceOver, a technology that lets the Shuffle talk to you, speaking song titles, artists and playlist names. The feature that’s ...
Apple Announces New iPod shuffle
SuperSite Blog —
Apple PR confirms that the company will not stop short of ludicrously small in its devices: World’s Smallest Music Player Now Talks to You Apple today introduced the all-new iPod shuffle, the world’s smallest music player at nearly half of the size of the previous model, and the first music player that talks to you. The revolutionary new VoiceOver feature enables iPod shuffle to speak your song titles, artists and playlist names. The third generation iPod shuffle is significantly smaller than a AA battery, ...
Apple Is Approaching a Defining Moment [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... , a smaller iPod shuffle. This quarter, however, it’s expected to roll out initiatives that involve considerably more risk. ...
