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 ...

Functionally, the second-generation (2G) iPod shuffle differs little from the original. Like the first, stick-of-gum shuffle, the 2G model bears a central Play/Pause button and four controls ...

Like the original iPod Shuffle, this new design offers no screen and the same five buttons: play/pause, next song, previous song, volume up and volume down.

The latest iPod shuffle is another example of an Apple product appropriate for a specific kind of user. You may not be that user.

The original $99 iPod Shuffle, released in January 2005, was smaller than a pack of gum and held about 120 songs. Its successor 20 months later dwarfed that to a money clip, and doubled song ...

“Today, we are simplifying our iPod lineup with two models of iPod Touch now with double the capacity starting at just $199 and we are discontinuing the iPod Shuffle and iPod Nano,” Apple said ...

The original iPod was not the first portable music player when it debuted in the fall of 2001, initially as a product that only worked with the Mac. But it soon helped transform Apple’s standing ...

The original iPod shuffle launched in 2005 and was the first model without a screen, allowing for a more portable design and a lower $99 starting price with 512MB of storage.

Of all the portable music players Apple has released over the past 20 years, the original iPod shuffle remains my favorite. It wasn’t my first iPod, and 16 years after its debut I’ve owned ...

I’ve always had a soft spot for the shuffle: the original, white-stick-of-gum-shaped model was the was the first iPod I owned.

The original $99 iPod Shuffle, released in January 2005, was smaller than a pack of gum and held about 120 songs. Its successor 20 months later dwarfed that to a money clip, and doubled song capacity.