Are you waiting for a tiny new iPod Shuffle? To finish your waiting Apple announced just few days ago a tiny new iPod Shuffle with a “Voice Over” feature. The feature identifies tracks out loud. With four gigabytes spaces the $79 Shuffle holds up to more than1,000 songs. It is about the size of a tie clip. In other word, it is the smallest iPod yet. Principle analyst at Creative Strategies, Tim Bajarin says the $79 price tag for a 4GB player is “very consumer friendly” even in a soft economy.

The new one’s controls are located on the cord of the earphone. Users will get a press button on the cord to play, pause, adjust volume and hear the name of the song or artist. Apple vice president of iPod and iPhone Product Marketing, Greg Joswiak said “Imagine your music player talking to you, telling you your song titles, artists and playlist names.” The new earphone-based controls were inspired by the ear-buds on Apple’s iPhone. Analyst Bajarin says you can use the ear-buds to take a phone call, hang up and perform several other actions.

The earphones are totally new, and ship with the player. Like previous Shuffles, it does not have any screen. The player comes in silver or black. Its battery lasts around 10 hours on a single charge. The speak aloud feature is available in 14 different languages. The player features an aluminum design with a steel clip. The clip makes it wearable, just as any user can wear current iPod Shuffles. Apple says the new one is now shipping but it is not obvious whether the new ones replace Apple’s existing Shuffle lineup such as a 1GB, $49 player and a 2GB, $69 version. However, some of those older models were still available on Apple’s website.

At last Apple has seen the light and may already be in the process of creating one of those very popular, stylish, smaller, fashionable inexpensive portable netbook computers for its consumers. Dow Jones said we could see an Apple netbook after the second half of the year.

Reliable sources say Apple is now working with two well-known manufacturers Wintek and Quanta Computer to assemble the first Apple branded netbooks. At this time, mentioned both companies produce netbooks for other companies. Netbooks those are already introduced by Asus, Dell, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo and others are small in size and computing power, but extremely portable. Netbooks generally weigh less than three pounds.

At present, Apple’s least expensive laptop is its white MacBook. The MacBook comes with a 13.3-inch screen, 2GB of RAM, 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor. It has a 120 GB hard drive sells and can run on the latest version of Apple’s OS X. weighs 4.5 pounds. It price is $999.

Netbooks do not typically have CD or DVD drives inside. They have Wi-Fi connectivity. Prices range usually from less than $300 for models with seven-inch screens to above $700 for larger-screen devices with more memory and internal storage that run on Microsoft’s Windows XP. According to as industry expert Apple’s mini laptop computers likely will get monitor screens that are between 9.7-inches and 10-inches. But other one says specifications and functions are still under evaluation.

Softbank Mobile Corp. of Japan announces that it will efficiently cut the price of iPhone 3G to as low as 0 yen as part of its scheme of discounted service rates and special sales campaigns as a counter to alleged poor sales from now till the end of May. It is really great news for the Japanese; the price of an iPhone can’t get much lower than this. Though, iPhone is not so much popular in there.

Now, the demand of iPhone in Japan and elsewhere has tailed off and it is being seen as just too costly. The situation hasn’t been helped by the current financial condition in Japan. The hefty and comparatively large iPhone is no longer selling in large amount like previous. Therefore, the 8GB model is to be given away for free to clients signing up to a two-year contract.

New subscribers who sign up for a two-year agreement will get an 8-gigabyte iPhone 3G for free as an alternative of the usual Y23, 040 via discounted service rates. And the 16GB model can be gotten for Y11, 520.