Apple's latest iPods: What you need to know

03.09.2010

No, those features have been retained. In fact, the latest shuffle offers a dedicated VoiceOver button to make the feature more accessible. However, as noted above, you do lose the inline remote control on the earbuds.

Oh, you noticed that? It was a conspicuous omission, especially given that Steve Jobs told the audience at Wednesday's event that every iPod model had been updated. That would seem to imply the classic's time as the last hard drive-based iPod model is up. Yet, the classic still has and you can still buy that model from Apple's online store. (It's the same $249 160GB classic, available in either black or white, that Apple .) What's unclear is if Apple is just going to continue selling the classic until it runs out of inventory or if it's keeping the classic as a part of the product line for customers who want a high-capacity music player. We put in a call to Apple's PR department to get an answer to that question, but we have yet to hear back.