New mates for the shuffle

I have decided I will use my brand new grey ipod shuffle when I want to take music with me, but I do not want to carry the big and heavy 80gb ipod video;

Not only because it is big but not as rugged as this little shuffle;

So I bought a pair of rugged clip-earphones to go with the ipod. They are not in the most elegant colour: bright green.



These pair of clip earphones are suposed to be sweat and water proof and even, washable;

Before I bought them, I did not notice they were bundled with a carrying case;


I even manage to put the earphones themselves with the ipod inside.


I am starting to love the ipod shuffle, these days gadgets get more and more complex, and this is so against all that....

I am curious how will I know it is running out of battery, will the blinking LED tell me???

I should mention which pair of earphones are these: They are Sennheiser OMX70 Sport. They cannot be considered cheap, but if they are as rugged as they promise, probably will not look expensive;

My only concern about the earphones is that they cable is extremely thin, I do not know how rugged will it be...

They are easy to wear and fit comfortable to my ears, and I guess any other pair of ears, specially since there are adapters for diferents size of ears.

In the other hand, they are very light, 7grams, including the cable. The ipod shuffle 2G weights another 12 grams.

Ipod Shuffle

Today, It has arrived my new Ipod Shuffle (2nd generation) in aluminium grey.
This tiny music player looks rock-built and feels nice on the hand.



Most controversial of this device has been the lack of a screen; It is very understandable, since it is must be hard to find a specific song between another 239 files.
In my opinion, since I hardly use another play mode in my 80gb ipod than shuffle, this should not be a big inconvenience to me.

At the moment, I am filling the little grey apple with music using the option convert files to AAC 128kbps and it seems awfully slow to the task. Since the PC I am using has a rather adequate processor for the task (intel core duo T2400), I guess it is because the shuffle is very slow writing files...



About the device, itself, besides the color and size, it is remarkable the dependance from its dock, since it is required to transfer files to any computer, being a device this portable, it would be better if it had the plug on its body.

A big question is why I own now an ipod shuffle if I mentioned before I had an ipod video 80gb? Well, the answer is rather simple: I won it in an aid from Coca-Cola. It is definetely not a huge prize, but feels very good to win any small gadget this way.