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Take one look at the new iPod shuffle and you can see Apple’s has gone in a very different direction from previous versions.

The old shuffles were colourful boxes with a modified ‘click wheel’ that let you navigate your music library. They were about the size of a large flash drive.

The new shuffle is a small -smaller than a normal flash drive - grey or silver box. Gone is the click wheel. The only thing on the device is an earphone jack, a slider button to turn it off and on (this also doubles as a way make the device play random songs), and a small light to let you know it’s charged.

Like the old version, the new shuffle also comes with a small clip attached.

In fact, the new shuffle may be the most unstylish model Apple’s ever released, but it’s also the version with the most functions.

The control buttons have been moved to a small bar the earphones. Click the bar once and the music starts. Click it again and the song pauses. I won’t go into all the combinations, but you can navigate your music with a simple combination of one, two, or three clicks. Read the rest of this entry »