Creative has just unveiled their newest portable media player, a touchscreen-based device dubbed as the Creative Zii Egg. Packed with a 3.5-inch, 480 x 320 resolution multi-touch display that can play music and videos as well as view photos and web pages, you can be forgiven if you thought it was just another Apple clone. It’s going to be marketed as something different though, with a Linux-based OS that welcomes open-source thinking.
The Zii Egg is being pushed as a mobile development platform, running on the Zii Plaszma Platform that provides developers, integrators, OEMs and ODMs with the tools to create apps and tools for their own purposes. It runs on a ZiiLABS ZMS-05 media-rich applications processor that offers 24 floating-point processors for up to 8 Gigaflops of processing power, and a graphics processor that can handle mobile 3D apps and games as well as 1080p HD video. The Plaszma Platform also supports Google’s Android OS.
The device is still pretty flush with built-in tech, with a 1080p HD-Out port that allows it to be plugged straight into an HDTV, dual cameras (VGA on the front and HD cam at the back), an SDHC card slot for adding up to 64GBs of storage, and a GPS receiver. It also features Wi-fi 802.11 b/g and Bluetooth connectivity, a 3-Axis Accelerometer, and a 1200mAH battery.
There’s no word if Creative will actually ship it with their brand on it or if we’ll see it packaged in a lot of different builds under several brands (which is what seems to be the plan).
Tags: Creative, Portable Media Player, Zii Egg
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