best MP3 Player Under 3000

Pod Shuffle 3rd Generation -

It's small and it talks. But will that be enough?
Incredibly small footprint, great build quality, convenient clip at the back, 4 GB of capacity

There's one thing that you can now be sure of when it comes to Apple products -- they're going to be small; as small as the laws of physics could allow. We have seen them doing it for several of their products in the past and they have now done it for the Shuffle. The Shuffle was already a very tiny music player to begin with and now they have gone ahead and done the impossible! Apple has made it half the size of what it was before. The result is a player that is shorter and just as wide.

Product Specifications
Battery Life (Hrs)
Up to 10 hours of music playback
Accessories
Apple Earphones with Remote, iPod shuffle USB cable
Connectivity.
iPod shuffle USB cable
Songs 1,000
Weight (g) 0.38 ounce (10.7 grams)
Storage 4GB
Charge time
About 3 hours (2-hour fast charge to 80% capacity)
Navigation
Apple Earphones with Remote + VoiceOver
Size (mm) 1.8 x 0.7 x 0.3 inches (45.2 x 17.5 x 7.8 mm) including clip
Audio support
AAC (16 to 320 Kbps), Protected AAC (from iTunes Store), MP3 (16 to 320 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Audible (formats 2, 3, and 4), Apple Lossless, WAV, and AIFF
Ports
iPod shuffle USB cable