Posted in iPod by Conner Flynn on March 11th, 2009
Apple just doubled the capacity of the iPod shuffle to 4GB, but that’s not all. They’ve completely ditched the control wheel. The clip stays, but they’ve added VoiceOver, a new feature that tells you which song is playing and who performs it at the touch of a button on the earbud cable.
Great, now I’ve got Stephen Hawking palling around with me. It will also call out your playlists and let you navigate to others. The device is available in black or silver for $80. VoiceOver is available in English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. Check out the video tutorial below.
I understand Apples thinking. Smaller and less buttons is better. But really? Do you want to hear that voice constantly?
I don’t so much care about the voice control, I’d know what would be on it, since it can only hold “1000″ songs. One thing that I do not like is the controls. You really have to control it with the headphones? What if you want to plug it into say, a car stereo for “commuting” which was mentioned in the video. Last time I checked commuting with headphones in was pretty dangerous.
Apple just doubled the capacity of the iPod shuffle to 4GB, but that’s not all. They’ve completely ditched the control wheel. The clip stays, but they’ve added VoiceOver, a new feature that tells you which song is playing and who performs it at the touch of a button on the earbud cable. 
I don’t so much care about the voice control, I’d know what would be on it, since it can only hold “1000″ songs. One thing that I do not like is the controls. You really have to control it with the headphones? What if you want to plug it into say, a car stereo for “commuting” which was mentioned in the video. Last time I checked commuting with headphones in was pretty dangerous.
Controls they conveniently omitted:
To go back - 3 clicks
To go forward - 2 clicks
Add that to the long holds and single clicks and you’ve got a morse code SAT test.