Apple iPod shuffle 1 GB Purple (2nd Generation) OLD MODEL
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Manufacturer: Apple ComputerBrand: Apple
Edition: Electronics
Model: MB233LL/A
Color: Purple
Publisher: Apple Computer
Studio: Apple Computer
Music Label: Apple Computer
Product features:
- Lets you wear up to 240 songs on your sleeve. Or your lapel. Or your belt.
- Now comes in four new colors and the original silver to suit your music and your mood
- iPod shuffle is the only iPod that's wearable right out of the box
- Collect music on the iTunes jukebox. Buy songs from the iTunes Store. Sync them to iPod shuffle.
- Measures 1.07 x 1.62 x 0.41 inches (H x W x D), weighs .55 ounces
- Apple iPod Armband for shuffle 1st Generation (Gray)
- Speck Zipper-Puck Carrying Case for iPod shuffle 2G (Pink)
- Speck Zipper-Puck Carrying Case for iPod shuffle 2G (Green)
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Customer Review: THE UNTENDED UNDERLING IN THE iPOD FAMILY
Summary: 2 Stars
I wanted to buy a no-nonsense mp3 player to keep me company while running. No video, no funky display menus, no labyrinthine software to work with. If I wanted to spend half a day getting my music in order I'd shell for the 80 gig iPod.
So I got myself a Shuffle, by far the sleekest small pod in the market.
But boy did I regret it.
After the one-time registration and initialization (which is not optional) the lemon wouldn't get the songs on it, thanks to the infamous "Disk not found error". Googled for it and discovered websites that are brimming with untended complaints; I'm on Windows XP, but the glitch seems to pervade operating systems.
Spent a day battling with the idiosyncrasies. Downloaded and installed an extra utility that Apple's Help site recommends. Enabled the Shuffle "for disk use". Reset it to factory settings and tried all over again, five times. And I'm a fairly persistent tech-savvy one. I did everything that's needed and more, but the stupid thing will still not remember the settings, will not let me change songs, and so on.
Tired with all of this rigmarole, I got a Creative Zen Stone Plus. It's a little larger than the Shuffle, but you can see why--Shuffle doesn't have a display and it uses the same jack for charging and earphones so you can only do one of those at a time. Stone Plus on the other hand connects through a small non-spaghetti USB cable, comes up instantly as a new drive on your PC, you copy the mp3 files from your music folder to this drive, and you're done.
I was up and running in 5 minutes flat. Can't help kicking myself for having fallen for the iPod luster.
Without becoming any clunkier in any meaningful way (both the doohickeys are pretty small), Stone Plus shows me the song that's playing, which I don't see on Shuffle. Stone Plus has an FM radio, a voice recorder, a timer, and a digital clock--none of which the Shuffle has. It charges in 5 minutes, which the Shuffle doesn't. I can use iTunes or any other tool or even nothing at all, but with Shuffle I am in an unhappy marriage with iTunes. The Stone Plus will hold about 1000 songs in comparison to Shuffle's 200 at the same bit-rate.
Because this is Creative, the company known among geeks for its speakers, the ear phones that come with the Stone Plus have a fabulous combination of bass and treble that will please the most fastidious connoisseur. After hearing them Shuffle's white thingies sound tinny and childish. I got my Stone Plus with a clip that makes it much more practical for running.
And all of it at 60% of the cost of a basic bare-bones Shuffle.
Sorry, Apple folks, in the small-mp3-player market Apple is simply the beautiful blond bimbo who trips on high heels at ten paces. If you're in the market for a nifty little mp3 player, skip the Shuffle. Even in the 3rd generation it's a 3rd rate contender.
Description of Apple iPod shuffle 1 GB Purple (2nd Generation) OLD MODEL
RE) APPLE IPOD SHUFFLE 1GB PurpleAmazon.com Product Description The 1 GB iPod shuffle lets you wear up to 240 songs on your sleeve. Or your lapel. Or your belt. And now it's available in your choice of remixed colors. Clip on iPod shuffle and wear it as a badge of musical devotion.
Controls
iPod shuffle pays respect to its bigger siblings with a circular control pad that puts the "go" in ergonomic. Click the center button to play and pause. Click the outer buttons to move back, skip forward, and adjust volume.
 Pop the iPod shuffle into the included dock and sync with iTunes. View iPod shuffle dimensions. |
 The shuffle switch lets you mix up the iPod contents, or play playlists in the order you want. View larger. |
Thanks to a built-in clip, iPod shuffle goes with anything. Clip it to your sleeve, lapel, coin pocket. No matter where you wear it, iPod shuffle speaks volumes about your style.
Shuffle switch
Embrace your inner rebel: Flip the shuffle switch to mix up iPod shuffle's contents. Flip it again to play your handpicked playlists and albums in the order you synced them from iTunes.
Battery indicator
Green means go, amber means you're low, and red means you've almost hit zero. But with up to 12 hours of battery life, the iPod shuffle may keep rocking even longer than you do.
Headphone jack
The headphone jack does double-duty as a dock connector. Flip iPod shuffle upside-down and drop it into the included dock. Connect the dock to your Mac or PC for a quick sync and charge. Away from your computer? Charge on the go with the optional Apple USB power adapter.
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