Creative Zii Egg
Published on August 12th, 2009.
Creative has announced a portable media player known as the Zii Egg which is quite similar compared to the iPod Touch in terms of design and functions. Well, its a MP3/video player to begin with.The Zii Egg is Creative's first product to run on ZiiLABS' ZMS-05 processor. The Zii Egg has option on running on different operating systems with the first being ZiiLABS' own Plaszma OS platform and the other being Android OS.
The ZMS-05 Processor
Some of the features and specifications of the Zii Egg are:
- 3.5" 320x480 resolution screen (which is about the same as the iTouch's)
- Capacitive 10-point multi-gesture touch display
- X-Fi audio processing (This is Creative's high end sound system found in their sound cards with carries the same name)
- Up to 32GB Internal Flash Storage
- SDHC slot which supports up to 32GB of external SDHC Card
- 720p and 1080p support
- 3-axis Accelerometer
- Dual cameras (this enables video calls, etc.)
- Hardware GPS receiver (Something not found in the iTouch which would make a great feature ^^;)
- Bluetooth 2.1
- Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
- Headphone socket, built-in speaker and microphone
The Zii Egg won't be able to masses as of yet. You can only get it buy purchasing the software development kit (SDK) bundle which its name implies, is targeted towards software developers at the price of USD399. ZiiLABS plans to market it through OEMs which means that "the device is marketed to sell to third parties rather than retail customers where they can modify it and sell it under their own brand rather than Creative or ZiiLABS" according to Wikipedia.
It will be interesting to see how this turns out to be.
More info can be found on the official site.
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