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ZiiLABS promise Zii Android smartphone demo in December

By Chris Davies on Monday, Nov 16th 2009 No Comments

ZiiLABS’ ZMS-08 chipset was certainly enough to get us interested last week – the promise of a 1GHz ARM Cortex A8 processor, Blu-ray quality video playback and parent company Creative’s X-Fi audio tech will do that to a geek – and now they’ve gone and got us hot under the collar with the promise of an Android smartphone.  Set to be demonstrated at the Zii Summit 2009, to be held in China on December 1st, the device is described as a Zii Optimized Android Phone platform, albeit based on the (still pretty impressive) ZMS-05 chipset.

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Creative Zii MediaBook breaks cover

By Shane McGlaun on Monday, Nov 2nd 2009 1 Comment

Creative got us all excited when it unveiled its Android-powered Zii Egg last month. Creative has now announced the coming of the next device in the Zii family called the Zii MediaBook. The MediaBook is the company's first entry into the eBook market. The device will compete alongside the Barnes & Noble Nook and the Amazon Kindle.

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Android arriving on Creative Zii EGG next week

By Chris Davies on Friday, Oct 16th 2009 No Comments

Creative’s Zii EGG developer unit has been on sale for some time now, but it’s taken the company a little time to deliver the promised Android update.  However, according to a Twitter message from the Zii team, ZiiLABS will be releasing the Android installer “next week”.

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Creative Zii FCC report released: full breakdown & manual

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Aug 6th 2009 No Comments

Creative’s Zii has now made a full appearance at the FCC, complete with break-down images and a user guide.  The document refers to the device – which uses Creative’s new ZMD 05 Plaszma module – as the Zii and not the Zii EGG, the developer edition, and that along with the language of the user guide has led to suggestions that this could in fact be the upcoming consumer version of the device.

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Creative Zii EGG gets hands-on; company hope to harness knock-off developers

By Chris Davies on Friday, Jul 31st 2009 No Comments

We’re indecently curious about Creative’s imminent Zii EGG developer design, what with its iPhone-like looks, 10-point multitouch display and potent ZMD 05 “Plaszma” module, so it’s interesting to see the first of the hands-on reports from over in Asia.  HardwareZone and CNET both stopped by the Creative offices to take a look.

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Creative demo Zii EGG gaming, ZMD 05 Plaszma module [Video]

By Chris Davies on Thursday, Jul 30th 2009 No Comments

Creative have been showing off some of their new Zii EGG developer device’s 3D gaming skills, with a video of the iPod touch-like handheld running a 3D OpenGL ES enhanced racing game complete with accelerometer control.  The company has also released a more technical video about their StemCell Computing platform, demonstrating some of the abilities of the ZMS 05 System Module at the Zii EGG’s core.

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Creative Zii EGG Android “Stemcell Computing” developer device launched

By Chris Davies on Tuesday, Jul 28th 2009 No Comments

Creative have announced their Zii EGG developer platform, the test hardware for coders to get to grips with their freshly “Plaszma” branded Stemcell Computing system.  The Zii EGG runs Google’s Android OS on top of Creative’s ZMS-05 chipset, and promises not only WiFi, Bluetooth 2.1+EDR and a 3.5-inch 320 x 480 10-point multitouch display, but 1080p video output, HD playback and OpenGL ES support.

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CES 2009: Creative Zii ‘Stemcell Computing’

By Chris Davies on Saturday, Jan 10th 2009 2 Comments

Creative have been demonstrating their new Zii platform this week at CES, catchily titled “Stemcell Computing”, which is promising a huge shift in how multimedia is handled by mobile devices.  Zii comprises a number of scalable Processing Elements, or PEs, each of which can be individually re-tasked to different tasks.  In that way, rather than a device having a set amount of video decoding, encoding or high-definition processing capability, it can selectively assign generic PEs to whatever the task at hand.

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Creative Zii teaser promises ‘Stemcell Computing’

By Chris Davies on Monday, Dec 29th 2008 1 Comment

Creative are preparing to launch a new processing chip at CES 2009, Zii, which the company is advertising as using “Stemcell Computing”.  Announced via a teaser webpage, Zii is believed to be a different type of product to the company’s X-Fi audio processing chip, and will find its way into a variety of upcoming products.

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