Apple on Wednesday introduced the next generation iPod shuffle. The shuffle has always been Apple’s smallest iPod, but now it is nearly half the size of the previous model at 1.8 inches tall by 0.3 inches thin.
The new iPod shuffle bumps storage up to 4GB and features VoiceOver, which enables the iPod to speak your song titles, artists, and playlist names. The shuffle can speak 14 languages: including English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, and Turkish.
Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vice president of iPod and iPhone Product Marketing, told Macworld that the iPod shuffle will automatically recognize what language it should speak. If you have a preference of which language you would like, it can be changed in iTunes.
According to Apple, the third-generation iPod shuffle holds up to 1,000 songs encoded at 128 Kbps.
The next generation will be the size of an RFID chip – and injectable.
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You made me think of an idea: How about a tape adapter that has an insert for the new Ipod shuffle? The shuffle could be turned on whenever the tape knob is spinning, skip using the tape player’s FF button, and repeat using the tape player’s REWIND button.
That would cause me to actually buy one.