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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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 ...

You’ve probably seen the news: Apple officially discontinued the iPod Shuffle and Nano. It had been years since Apple improved either MP3 player — the iPod nano was last updated in October 2012 and ...

This week, Apple announced that it would be unceremoniously killing off the iPod nano and the iPod shuffle, two of the last vestiges of the iPod era. While the nano may have been the spotlight product ...

That shouldn’t come as a surprise to you: the Apple CEO has been on a crusade to wipe moving parts from the face of Apple’s products as early as the replacement of PowerBook trackballs with trackpads ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Apple refreshed its iPod range for Christmas 2006, surprises were sorely lacking: the big iPod was given more disk space and battery life (sarcastic whoops), while the Nano was reborn as a ...