
The runt of the Apple litter has learnt a new trick: the third generation Shuffle can talk! But can it walk the iPod walk? In two words… kind of.

The runt of the Apple litter has learnt a new trick: the third generation Shuffle can talk! But can it walk the iPod walk? In two words… kind of.

When Apple announced that it was bringing out a 160GB iPod all other MP3/PMP manufacturers must have dropped a brick. Apple subsequently cut the Classic down to 120GB, which would have pleased them a little, but that still holds a whopping 30,000 songs or 150 hours of video!

Even the most brainwashed Apple haters out there would have to concede that the Apple iPod Touch is a remarkable bit of kit. Taking all the best bits from the iPhone – the stunning widescreen display, the mind-blowingly elegant interface, the browser and Wi-Fi – and ditching the iPhone’s cruddier elements, such as the camera. And the phone.

Apple’s taken a few risks with the iPod nano’s design in the past. But then we all have to take a risk every time we leave the house or shove a lit firework down our trousers. For us, though, it worked. And so has Apple’s latest elongated, slimmer-than-slim design for the nano.