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SigmaTel To Supply Next-Gen iPod Shuffle Chip?
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Apple will continue to sell a product that makes them money.
I expect that they will either:
A) Shrink the Shuffle, keep the same battery life
B) Keep it the same size, increase battery life.
The capacities will remain 512MB and 1GB. It will use a lower-power chipset to gain the battery life extension/smaller battery use. It will be offered in white and black - other colours unlikely, maybe red because of those rumours about the AIDS charity thing.
A display is very unlikely in my opinion.
I expect that they will either:
A) Shrink the Shuffle, keep the same battery life
B) Keep it the same size, increase battery life.
The capacities will remain 512MB and 1GB. It will use a lower-power chipset to gain the battery life extension/smaller battery use. It will be offered in white and black - other colours unlikely, maybe red because of those rumours about the AIDS charity thing.
A display is very unlikely in my opinion.
Replaced. Not dropped.bigandy said:
Big difference.
Maybe the new Shuffle will be called iPod Pico, it still would only replace the shuffle in that area of the marketplace.
Rychiar
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iPod Shuffle=an overpriced flash keydrive. Seriously who would want one of these screenless wastes of plastic? Wasn't the nano replacing these? My cell phone has an mp3 player in it that holds just as many songs and it has 2 full color screens and speakers and costs less probably nowadays. I think ill stick with my 6 gig iPod
johnmcboston
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Rychiar said:
me for one. There are time sI want to hit play and listen to music. Not spend 10 minutes navigating menus. Something I can easily work while wearing garden gloves or winter gloves and not have to worry about working a click wheel through the ipod skin and a set of gloves. Having Mom be able to use a player without having to go and get her glasses to SEE the tiny menu, never mind trying to understand how to navigate it.
Just because you don't have a use for something doesn't make it useless. I have a proper ipod, but the shuffle is a good second player for a particular need. (cheaper would be nice though).
Sharewaredemon
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johnmcboston said:
A very good point, and I am sure there are a lot of iPod owners who bought a shuffle as a secondary iPod.
I know I did.
Playlist selection is really the only Shuffle upgrade necessary IMO. Size, colour, shape, those adjustments would be nice(potentially), but playlist skipping would be the icing on the cake.
DrEasy said:
Waterproof shuffle
What apple should do is to engineer a fully water proof, and dirt proof shuffle, so it can be used in the work environment. Before I lost mine it had been accidentally underwater, without any problem. Just needs a bit of extra engineering. Waiting for the new one 🙄
What apple should do is to engineer a fully water proof, and dirt proof shuffle, so it can be used in the work environment. Before I lost mine it had been accidentally underwater, without any problem. Just needs a bit of extra engineering. Waiting for the new one 🙄
johnmcboston
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Di9it8 said:
hmmm. That's a good thought. Although I suspect they would asnwer that by saying there are *-proof skins out there you can buy...
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IJ Reilly
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Not that anyone cares, but both of the stories posted on MR's front page today (this one, and the one about future Intel processors) contained misplaced apostrophes. Both "CPUs" and "Nanos" are plural, not possessive, so no apostrophe is needed before the "s."
No need to discuss. Carry on.
No need to discuss. Carry on.
I would love a shuffle replacement with an OLED display like Sony's overly expensive USB player. I have a Nano but I always seem to be using my shuffle at the gym because I can drop it, bang into it and I don't need to worry about how fragile it is. I also find it easier to skip a song or replay a song if the shuffle is in my jeans pocket. With the Nano its more difficult because if my finger brushed against the click wheel while looking for a button i change the volume. PLUS - no docking cable needed!
The original really was a near flawless design.
The original really was a near flawless design.
If you'd like to help, please report typos with the Report Bad Post feature (on the first post of the thread) rather than making posts about typos. We can fix typos, and appreciate hearing about them, but when you post in the thread we might not notice your comment and it makes more work if we want to remove the post after the problem is fixed. Bad Post Reports are the efficient way to let the "staff" know about a mistake.IJ Reilly said:
bigandy said:
They didn't discontinue it, they replaced it. They might get rid of the shuffle...but only if they replace it with something similar.
I'd like to see them add higher capacities and simply drop prices on current models. A screen doesn't really interest me on a small player.
Rychiar said:
I bought one because it was the best deal for the money when it came out. I still love it, even though there are cheaper (but to me, not necessarily better) alternatives out. If your cell phone is cheaper, that's just because it's subsidized by a service contract, I'd bet if you bought it outright it would be at least a couple hundred bucks.
I agree that just adding an extra button for switching playlists (and obviously holding multiple playlists) would be enough for me.
whooleytoo
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Just found this story now - I guess this isn't that surprising, given that Apple did similar when ATI leaked a story about its graphics cards going into the next model of PowerMac. In that case, it was even more extreme - as the ATI leak was the day before the keynote, and thus Apple made the switch at that late stage!