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Apple's tiny 4GB iPod now top of the task of people

Apple Inc. unveiled a minuscule new iPod Shuffle on Wednesday that takes its "smaller is better" mantra to a whole new level.

The third-generation Shuffle, a slim aluminum rectangle less than 2 inches long, takes up about half as much space as the previous version even as it doubles music storage space to 4 gigabytes. The secret: Apple had to remove most of the buttons from the body of the $79 device and build them into the headphone cord instead.
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"Smaller has tended to work very well for us," said Greg Joswiak, a marketing vice president at Apple.

The trade-off for a sub-$100 Shuffle always has been the lack of a screen to visually navigate the music. The first-generation Shuffle, launched in 2005, could hold about 240 songs.

Now that the device can carry 1,000 songs, Apple has come up with a way for people to identify the music they want. A new feature called VoiceOver can, at the push of a button, speak the song and artist name or rattle off the list of custom mixes -- called playlists -- that the owner has loaded onto the device.

The new Shuffle, which comes in silver or black aluminum with a shiny stainless steel clip, is set to go on sale today.

Joswiak said Apple's own earphones will be the only option for early buyers, but that other companies plan to make compatible headphones as well as adapters for regular headphones.