The Wall Street Journal's Walter Mossberg took the new iPod Shuffle for a test drive, and says that it's "this is a good product that will enlarge the iPod's appeal."
Mossberg writes:
I've been testing the new iPod Shuffle for a couple of days, and, in my tests, it fulfilled - and even exceeded - Apple's claims for convenience, battery life and song capacity. Sound quality is so good you can barely believe the music is coming from something so small.