CUPERTINO, Calif. — It’s a new recession iPod. Apple on Wednesday rolled out its third iteration of its low-end iPod Shuffle with speech-based functions that tell users what song is playing and who the performer is.
The VoiceOver technology on the $79 device, which Apple calls the world’s smallest digital music player, will list the names of playlists, giving users a new way to navigate their music on the screenless iPod.
The new Shuffle, which holds up to 1,000 songs, can also tell users other information, such as battery life, in 14 languages. And it’s about half the size of the previous generation.
“It’s not a stripped-down experience. It has a new cool user interface that isn’t even on the high-end iPods,” said Jupiter Research analyst Michael Gartenberg. San Jose Mercury News
