Android-based Creative Zii Egg gets official

[desiibond]

Capacitive 10-point multi-gesture touch display
• 3.5” 320×480 true-color display
• Up to 32GB internal plus SDHC slot (supports up to 32GB of external SDHC Card)
• X-Fi audio processing
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
• 3-axis Accelerometer
• Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
• Hardware GPS receiver
• 32MB NOR (Linux Kernel Boot ROM)
• 256MB Mobile DDR RAM
• Supports 720p and 1080p HDTVs via HD cable
•Headphone socket, built-in speaker and microphone
• Dual cameras
- Forward facing HD camera
- Rear facing VGA camera
• 1200mAH rechargeable lithium-ion
• 115 x 62 x 12 mm (108grams)

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-12519_7-10297175-49.html

[sujoyp]

good specs but its a developer edition...

[x3060]

well, the specs are good ,.... so is the looks of the phone. hope they launch it soon and with a reasonable price.

[desiibond]

yes. only thing missing in it is a phone.

[amitabhishek]

Originally Posted by desiibond

yes. only thing missing in it is a phone.

Would have been a heck of a phone!!!

[Coool]

Great Design...After all its Creative's product

[NucleusKore]

Looks good. Wonder how much it will cost in India. Offtopic, someone mentioned the other day, that digital cameras are getting so compact/powerful/affordable that the companies might just about start adding GSM capabilities to it

[desiibond]

and here is the live demo:
http://www.spike.com/video/is-creati...r&refsite=7118

[Tamoghno]

Looks like it have capability of kicking itouch and zune hd's combined ass.

Btw , what exactly do they mean by developer's edition ?

[sujoyp]

Originally Posted by Tamoghno

Btw , what exactly do they mean by developer's edition ?

Creative is announcing this as a "developer edition" in the hopes that the Android community will pick up the platform and run with it.

I think to develop more softwares and enhancements for android

[MetalheadGautham]

somebody please cellotape a nokia 1100 to this and make it complete

[Tamoghno]

But after combining phone with it , they will charge $999 instead of $399 .

[Techn0crat]

Surely an iPod killer.

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by desiibond

• 3.5” 320×480 true-color display

THIS.
Should be bigger to kill an iPod.

The rest, especially support for formats even iPod with rockbox can't support thanks to FFMPEG in Android, would truly kill iPods.

[Tamoghno]

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

THIS.
Should be bigger to kill an iPod.

The rest, especially support for formats even iPod with rockbox can't support thanks to FFMPEG in Android, would truly kill iPods.

this is probably limitation of android os . Each and every android device have this resolution. May be this is done to maintain app compatibility.

I wont mind the resolution if that was an AMOLED. 3.5inch at that resolution is ok for me .

[desiibond]

ipod can never be kiled. It's not the ipod that is keeping it alive. It's iTMS. Once you are in, you can never go out!!! Though for us, this could surely become a big hit.

Definitely my next purchase once I kill my Cowon D2

[Techn0crat]

Yeah.iPod is alive because of it's flaunt value.
BTW You can donate your D2 to me.

[Tamoghno]

^^

or throw it in dustbin(wrapped) and tell me the location

[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by Tamoghno

this is probably limitation of android os . Each and every android device have this resolution. May be this is done to maintain app compatibility.

I wont mind the resolution if that was an AMOLED. 3.5inch at that resolution is ok for me .

I seriously doubt android has such a limitation.

And 3.5" may be enough for you but its still tiny compared to an iPod which means it will never really kill iPod.

Originally Posted by Techn0crat

Yeah.iPod is alive because of it's flaunt value.
BTW You can donate your D2 to me.

Wrong. Not flaunt value but the iTunes Music Store as Desibond. Music bought there is DRM protected and millions of americans and europians who bought music there can't play their audio on any other PMP but an iPod.

This obviously wouldn't affect Indians because a huge majority of us either don't BUY music at all, or buy albums in CDs but rarely do we buy DRM protected low quality online music.

[Tamoghno]

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

I seriously doubt android has such a limitation.

And 3.5" may be enough for you but its still tiny compared to an iPod which means it will never really kill iPod.

i'm no android guru but i think i read somewhere about this limitation . I heard se is waiting for android 2.0 (donut , which is supposed to support higher resolution) for this reason .

Btw , ipod also have 3.5 inch screen so how creative is smaller ?

By enough i meant to say is the dpi of the screen is still fairly high to offer great picture. Of course more is better , but still there are other aspects that are more important than raw resolution number.

Wrong. Not flaunt value but the iTunes Music Store as Desibond. Music bought there is DRM protected and millions of americans and europians who bought music there can't play their audio on any other PMP but an iPod.

agreed.
also the ease of use is another factor that give ipod an edge.

This obviously wouldn't affect Indians because a huge majority of us either don't BUY music at all, or buy albums in CDs but rarely do we buy DRM protected low quality online music.

india and DRM ,ha ha

[x3060]

i still wonder , how much cost of production will increase -just to include a phone to it?????

come on creative.....its such a wonderful product