“The tiny iPod shuffle remains the iPod Apple makes the least of a song and dance about, but it’s no less a player worthy of buyers’ consideration than its label-mates,” Nick Hawkesmoor reports for The Register.
“The second-generation iPod shuffle Apple revamped last week remains almost entirely the same as the version announced way back in 2006,” Hawkesmoor reports.
“One difference [besides new colors] between then and now is the price. A 2GB Shuffle will set you back today £45/$69 – £10 and $10 less than a 1GB model would have cost you two years ago. Then, the 1GB Shuffle was priced at £55/$79. Now it’s £32/$49,” Hawkesmoor reports.
“Complain about other iPods, but bizarrely perhaps, the iPod shuffle offers one of the best sonic performances of the lot. It beats our first-gen iPhone and our old Nano, for example. Songs have more clarity and more immediacy on the cheap model,” Hawkesmoor reports.
“It’s still a great player to keep in a bag or in the car for those occasions when you don’t have your main music player or phone to hand, or you just want a simple, easy machine for random playback or casual listening,” Hawkesmoor reports.
Full review here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dirty Pierre le Punk” for the heads up.]