Creative Zii Egg Plaszma Runs on Android, Uses Flexible StemCell Architecture
Creative Zii Egg Plaszma Runs on Android, Uses Flexible StemCell Architecture
Posted 07/30/2009 at 2:07pm
| by Andy Salisbury
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Thanks to a recent announcement, we now know that Creative’s new Zii Egg Plaszma (read: open source iPod Touch) will be the first to boast a flexible StemCell system architecture, which will make use of 24 floating-point processors.
The Egg, which is shipping out to developers now in a $399 SDK is being marketed as an Android-friendly “handheld computer,” that has many features similar to Apple’s offering, but beefed up in a few areas. Most notably, it features a full-sized SD card slot, a rear facing HD video camera, a front facing VGA camera, Flash Lite support, GPS, WiFi, and it has enough power under the hood to output 1080p video.
The Egg will likely retail for $199, but there’s no official as to when we can expect it on store shelves.
Image Credit: Creative
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ThornDawg
August 31, 2010 at 4:19pm
after this amount of time has there been any updates for this device? does anyone know more about pricing? I'm definetly interested in this product, and am looking for a new media player.
techparadox
July 31, 2009 at 1:57pm
I like the look. Heck, I'd buy one of those over the iPod Touch just to be able to hoist a hefty middle finger in the direction of Apple. If they can meet that $199 price point, they've got a sale right here!
mesiah
July 30, 2009 at 10:09pm
I'm surprised companies still try to push the technology envelope on devices like this. I'm glad they do, but still surprised. Like all the media devices before it, its just going to get everrun by apple devices. Just like the zune, and the nomad, and all the countless devices like it. It won't matter that it is more powerful than ipod, has more features than ipod, and costs less than ipod. If it doesn't have the apple logo and connect to itunes the majority of people won't even concider it when they are in the market for a media player, because most people aparently aren't in the market for a media player, they are in the market for an ipod.
jrocknyc
July 31, 2009 at 4:26am
while it's unlikley to outsell the iPod, if one in ten iPod Touch sales go instead to this device, that's a TON of money. You seem to think "Fail" means "Not Dominating the Market/Apple", which is wrong.
I was considering the HD Zune that's coming out (to replace my 8gb Zune), but I'm still not crazy about the Zune software (and despise iTunes). I'm not the only one who feels this way. This device could do pretty well.
mesiah
July 31, 2009 at 9:29pm
My technical definition of fail is when a company's total expenditures to sell a product (R&D, production, advertising) is greater than the return from sales and residuals. But my working definition is for a product to gain enough market share to be widely recognized by the general population. Most people can identify an ipod from across the room, but almost none of them could identify a zune from 5 feet away. To think that even one in ten sales will go to this device instead of ipod is a lofty goal considering sales performance of previous devices. It may seem like alot of people own devices like the zune when talking to people on tech sites, because we are tech savvy enough to not blindly purchase a device because its cool. As of april apple held 71% of the market share. the other 29% was split up between the rest of the competition with MS and creative coming in with 4% and 2% respectively . San disk actually holds a commanding lead over the third placed zune with 11%. So, right now less than 1 zune is sold for every 17 ipods sold and 35 ipods for every creative device, thats quite a gap to close even to hit your proposed number of 1 for 10. I would love to see the zune or any other feature packed media player achieve 15-20% market share and actually give apple a little competition, but in the near future I don't see it happening.
holmessh
July 30, 2009 at 6:01pm
By output I believe they are refering to the video you can take with the phone and then transfer to your computer.
themohawkadmin
July 30, 2009 at 5:08pm
Call me a noob, but would it really make any difference if it played 1080p, with such a relativly small screen?
guoruiwu1994
July 30, 2009 at 6:30pm
The point of HD output on low res screens is to be able to output HD content onto TVs.
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