The Android 1.6 installer for the Creative Zii Egg has been released today and demoed on video.
There are a few bugs to iron out including the camera which doesn’t work and visible code.
While there may still be a long way to go every release is a step closer to a sweet Android contender.
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The Creative Zii Egg’s UI, touchscreen and playback capabilities are for all to see on the video linked above.
It all looks pretty impressive and the 480 x 320 3.5 inch display shines when smoothly running a 1280 x 720 resolution video.
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Despite the buzz Creative are creating with the Zii EGG they are still sticking with regular PMPs too. The latest is their sequel to the Zen X-Fi, the Zen X-Fi2.
Upgrades includes a fully touchscreen interface and a screen sizeup to 3 inches.
It comes in 8GB, 16GB and 32GB models (all with microSD expansion) and prices [...]

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Creative have registered their latest initiative at the Patent and Trademark Office, a drag and drop interface with ‘action tabs’ that’ll allow you to swish things around in your palm like a mini Tom Cruise. This tabbed MID/PMP idea is made a little more interesting given that the patent has been assigned to the Creative [...]

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The default browser for Creative’s Zii EGG will be Opera due to its “Web application” platform which makes it developer-friendly, pushing further the built for developers ethos behind the EGG, as previously reported. The default OS is Plaszma but others (including Android) are available on the user’s whim.
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Not an Spectrum ZX game, just news that Creative have shed more light on their Zii Egg development platform. The PMP is geared toward developers building applications and entire user experiences out of the Zii Egg chips cell hardware that goes alongside Android and their own Linux based OS dubbed Plaszma.
It looks to follow the [...]

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