I was given a 1st Gen apple ipod shuffle for my birthday some years ago, i still have it and it still works perfectly, a great example of the high standard apple sets in the world of the MP3 player. The ipod Shuffle was very small, and very easy to find somewhere to put it, the controls were very basic, theres a slider at the back for on, off and shuffle, and the controls at the front for play/pause, next song, last song and volume controls, to put the ipod on hold you held the play button for 4 seconds and the top of the ipod would flash orange. There was also a small button you could press to check battery levels, green for good, orange for poor.

The ipod shuffle, although basic i feel is one of the most superier ipods ever built, apple designed something small, easy to use, cheap and basic and it worked brilliantly, as i said my ipod shuffle still works and i've had it for at least 6 years now.