The third-generation iPod shuffle is here, and not a soul saw it coming. (These days, that’s a rarity.) Apple’s new buttonless wonder has been making waves and ruffling feathers in the days since its ...

The iPod shuffle did away with the music player's display -- and celebrated randomness. January 11, 2005: Steve Jobs introduces the iPod shuffle, an entry-level music player that lacks a display. The ...

As expected, Apple have unveiled a new iPod Shuffle 4GB, throwing out the control wheel in the process and introducing VoiceOver, a new feature which reads out tracklistings at a touch of the in-line ...

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Zero buttons. That’s as minimalist as it gets. Removing all buttons—or to clarify, moving them to the headset—shrinks down the size of the new iPod Shuffle dramatically, but it also creates control ...

A look under the hood of Apple Computer's iPod Shuffle shows the company is making music with two chips. IDC analyst IdaRose Sylvester recently dissected a 512MB iPod Shuffle, purchased at retail, to ...

There is a reason that Apple owns the market when it comes to portable MP3 players. Not just the fact that the iPod wrote the book, but how every new iPod continues to pave the way. The completely ...

Is the iPod shuffle really such a simple device that it merits instructions no more complicated than lock, load, and play? Not in my book, it doesn’t. Having monkeyed with a 512MB iPod shuffle for a ...

Over the weekend, some bloggers who discovered a chip inside the iPod Shuffle's earbuds speculated that Apple was crippling its latest media player to work only with certain headphones. While to an ...

Donald Bell has spent more than five years as a CNET senior editor, reviewing everything from MP3 players to the first three generations of the Apple iPad. He currently devotes his time to producing ...

The age of carrying a music-only device is over, but not forgotten. The digital music player will be laid to rest once the iPod Touch sells out. The iPod shuffle was one of Apple's simplest devices.

Apple announced the second incarnation of its budget iPod, the iPod shuffle, at its widely-anticipated "It's Showtime" event in September. The new shuffle is notably smaller, thinner, and lighter than ...