New Toshiba Gigabeat G21 Announced

I4U has informed us that Toshiba announced a successor to their G20 model MP3 player yesterday. The new model, the Gigabeat G21, also sports a 20GB capacity and, as far as I can tell, has the same dimensions as the older model. The G21 is slim and nearly square at 3"x3.5"x.5". By comparison, the 3rd generation 15GB iPod is a more rectangular 4.1"x2.4"x 0.62".

What's unusual about the G21 is something I've never seen before now: the remote for the unit is the neck strap. Control buttons seem to be embedded in the fabric of the strap. I'm not sure how practical this would be, but Toshiba does get points for being creative.

Here is Toshiba's press release in Japanese, but I4U also has a computer-generated ("This bale of excellent problem strap type remote control in operativeness") translation. Also, another Japanese article has several pictures of the G21.

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