Apple Releases New Talking iPod Shuffle

Apple has released their third generation iPod shuffle now featuring speech capabilities designed to tell users which songs or playlists they are listening to. The shuffle, which has always been Apple's smallest iPod, has also shrunk in size to nearly half the size of the previous model or as Apple claims, "significantly smaller than a AA battery."




The new 4-gigabyte MP3 player will cost you about $79 and carries up to 1,000 songs. It comes in two colors, silver and black. For those of you not needing speech capabilities or the extra song capacity Apple will continue to sell the second-generation version of the 1-gigabyte, 240-song Shuffle for $49. But they will be phasing out the 2-gigabyte Shuffle, which currently sells for $69.