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Creative Zii building steam? New 3G Dev board & peripherals; Android support by March

Chris Davies — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:19:26 +0000

Creative have been talking up their Zii platform for quite some time now – the HD-capable system first showed up at CES 2009, and then more recently sprouted a smartphone reference design in December last year – but beyond the initial developer device there’s little to show from the whole project. Over at epiZENter, however,

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ZiiLABS TRINITY demos 1080p HD skills [Video]

Chris Davies — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 11:41:16 +0000

As video demos go we’d have preferred to see a little bit more of the ZiiLABS TRINITY smartphone, but a brief splash of the ZMS-05 based handset outputting 1080p High Definition video is not something to be sniffed at. While the current TRINITY reference design has a proprietary docking connector on the bottom, Creative have

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ZiiLABS TRINITY smartphone gets video demo

Chris Davies — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 10:20:44 +0000

ZiiLABS’ TRINITY is designed to draw the attention of smartphone lovers to the ZMS-05 platform, just like its ZiiEGG predecessor did for PMPs, and it seems to be doing a pretty good job. Crave Asia grabbed some hands-on time with the smartphone – which is capable of 1080p HD video playback, has a 3.1-inch 800

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Creative ZiiSOUND D5 iPod speaker dock eschews anything ZiiLABS

Chris Davies — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 11:33:57 +0000

Looking for a guaranteed way to confuse press and customers alike, and dilute your new brand? Creative have a good example: they’ve called their latest iPod speaker dock the ZiiSound, which you’d expect to thus include some of the clever ZiiLABS “StemCell Computing” magic they’ve been discussing this week. Instead it’s a bog-standard speaker dock,

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Zii TRINITY 3.5G ZMS-05 dev smartphone announced

Chris Davies — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:37:43 +0000

As promised last month, the ZiiLABS team have revealed their first smartphone development platform, the Zii TRINITY, based on the company’s StemCell ZMS-05 processor and throwing in quadband GSM and triband WCDMA/HSDPA. As before, 1080p Full HD is supported together with accelerated OpenGL ES 3D graphics, while up front the TRINITY has a 3.1-inch 800

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ZiiLABS promise Zii Android smartphone demo in December

Chris Davies — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:51:35 +0000

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

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Creative Zii MediaBook breaks cover

Shane McGlaun — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:50:01 +0000

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

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Android arriving on Creative Zii EGG next week

Chris Davies — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 09:47:51 +0000

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”. The Zii EGG is based on Creative’s ZMS-05 chipset,

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Creative Zii FCC report released: full breakdown & manual

Chris Davies — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 11:49:11 +0000

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

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

Chris Davies — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 10:47:06 +0000

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. The pre-release versions

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

Chris Davies — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:01:10 +0000

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

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Creative Zii EGG Android “Stemcell Computing” developer device launched

Chris Davies — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 14:20:50 +0000

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

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CES 2009: Creative Zii ‘Stemcell Computing’

Chris Davies — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 21:35:13 +0000

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

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Creative Zii teaser promises ‘Stemcell Computing’

Chris Davies — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 15:57:13 +0000

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. Other

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