Apple iPod shuffle 2 GB Silver (4th Generation) Pros and Cons by Users

Product Details:

• 2 GB capacity for about 500 songs
• Up to 15 hours of audio playback on a single charge
• Easy-to-use control pad for playing your music, audiobooks, and podcasts
• Support for AAC, Protected AAC (iTunes Store), MP3, MP3 VBR, Audible, Apple Lossless, AIFF, and WAV audio formats
• One-year limited warranty

Pros and Cons:
Below are pros and cons by users of Apple iPod Shuffle 2GB Silver 4th generation, the newest one from Apple
Pros:

• Great little thing
• Strong clip 
• Easy to use  
• Simple, multi-position switch on the top lets you play in order or shuffle. Voice over button is easy to use and works well.
• Easy to sync (choose playlists, genius playlists, albums, artists, podcasts, etc...) 
• Looks good (see my notes about online photos at the bottom) 
• Long (15h) battery life.

Cons:

• No hold function (really Apple?)
• Requires iTunes 10 
• No equalizer 
• Build quality is lacking 
• USB cord is short 
• Applecare costs $30 

User review of Apple iPod shuffle 2GB Silver 4th generation

Hold switch: it's definitely going to be a problem, not enough to return it but enough to negatively affect day to day usage

Durability: the iPod took a hard fall directly on concrete, still works fine but the part where it hit the ground looks like it went through a car wreck

iTunes 10: the hype and hatred against iTunes 10 seems to be misplaced, it's just another update, however I still don't like having to update to use the new iPods

USB cord: would have been nice to stick with the old dock, the new cord is 3 inches long, usb on one side and 3.5mm stereo on the other, easily transported but easily lost, doesn't compliment a desk well

Applecare: I would have gotten Applecare would it have been $20, but at $30 it's approaching doubling the overall purchase price, it would most likely be best to hold off, and if you ever break it chances are the next iPod shuffle will be out by the time you do

Equalizer: still wish it was there, it could be easily set within iTunes. I will try and see if setting the equalizer of each individual song will help but when listening to the iPod in my car, and CD's burned using iTunes, the iPod songs have no mid range, the equalizer in the car was the same with each.


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