Apple announces new iPod shuffle with VoiceOver feature
Posted by Dennis Sellers 
Mar 11, 2009 at 4:29am
Apple has 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.” It’s VoiceOver feature enables iPod shuffle to speak your song titles, artists and playlist names.
The third generation iPod shuffle is smaller than a AA battery, holds up to 1,000 songs and has all of the controls located on the earphone cord. With the press of a button, you can play, pause, adjust volume, switch playlists and hear the name of the song and artist. iPod shuffle features a gorgeous new aluminum design with a built-in stainless steel clip that makes it ultra-wearable
Greg Joswiak, Apple’s vice president of iPod and iPhone Product Marketing, notes that the iPod shuffle is based on Apple’s shuffle feature, which randomly selects songs from your music library. And now, when you can’t remember the name of a song or an artist playing, with the press of a button iPod shuffle tells you the name of the song and artist. iPod shuffle can even tell you status information, such as battery life. With the ability to hold up to 1,000 songs and the VoiceOver feature, you can now easily switch between multiple playlists on your iPod shuffle.
The iPod shuffle can “speak” 14 languages including English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. The new iPod shuffle comes in silver or black and features built-in stainless steel clip.
The third generation 4GB iPod shuffle is now shipping and comes in silver or black for a suggested price of US$79 through the Apple Store, Apple’s retail stores and Apple Authorized Resellers. The iPod shuffle comes with the Apple Earphones with Remote and the iPod shuffle USB cable. iPod shuffle requires a Mac with a USB 2.0 port, Mac OS X 10.4.11 or later and iTunes 8.1 or later; or a Windows PC with a USB 2.0 port and Windows Vista, Windows XP Home or Professional (Service Pack 3) or later and iTunes 8.1.
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Dennis has been a newspaper editor/reporter (seven years) and teacher (seven years). He has over 10,000 magazine, newspaper and online articles to his credit. He has also covered the Mac and tech industries for over a decade for such online publications as MacCentral, MacMinute and now MacsimumNews.
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