Singaporean manufacturer Creative has leaked its own eBook Reader–the Zii MediaBook eReader. Surprisingly, the Zii Plaszma will throw its own set of unique features on an eBook reader. One more surprise: the Zii MediaBook will not have an e-ink display. Rather, what potential users will get is a touchscreen of unspecified size. It will be [...]
Continue reading...5. October 2009
If you’re interested in keeping Creative in the PMP market, the best you can do is purchase a ZEN X-Fi2, which is now available at Amazon. It’s a touchscreen PMP without the excitement being offered by the upcoming Zii EGG with the stemcell software. An X-Fi2 starts at $129.99. This is the 8GB model. The model [...]
Continue reading...12. September 2009
It wasn’t great when Engadget shot a short demo of the ZEN X-Fi2. The UI was laggy and gave the user such a horrible experience it was necessary to give it a take two. Creative has finalized the firmware and what follows will be the final state the X-Fi2 will be in. It’s not so [...]
Continue reading...3. September 2009
The most sought after Creative future-ware remains just that, future-ware. The ZEN X-Fi2 is a successor of the ZEN X-Fi, a tad more portable and a touchscreen. The hardware design does not stray far from Creative’s previous ZEN PMPs. It also offers pricing that will be very familiar to fans of Creative. Specs: 3.0-inch touchscreen MP3, WMA, AAC, [...]
Continue reading...28. August 2009
Dapreview’s DaHarder has been lucky enough to be one among the chosen few who’ve been sent the new Zii Egg PMP from Creative. The device is very promising, and should be offering a first class multimedia experience to owners. Once it get properly branded, of course. DaHarder mentions the OLED screen and the sound quality [...]
Continue reading...4. August 2009
People who still don’t think Creative’s new Zii Egg falls under the iPod Touch competitor category should take a look at the video below. The Zii Egg will have the new Plaszma operating system, which is a Google’s Android hybridized with Creative’s own Stemcell. The Zii Egg is not an official Creative PMP yet. It’s [...]
Continue reading...29. July 2009
It’s also official that Singapore’s Creative is back with a vengeance. Let me just say this on the get-go. As a manufacturer, Creative is wiser than Meizu, waiting until it has a product ready for launch before leaking anything. The Creative Zii Egg is a definite iPod Touch competitor with goodies like WiFi, capacitive 10-point [...]
Continue reading...9. July 2009
Singaporean manufacturer Creative has just unveiled (sort of) a touchscreen PMP. The device is dubbed Zii and there will be a developer’s version codenamed Zii Egg. From the photo, it will have an iPhonesque form factor and an HD camera. Hopefully, it will also have an OLED screen and a good OS like a version [...]
Continue reading...30. May 2009
In case you didn’t like the Mondrian-style ZEN Mosaic, Creative has announced a new option: the ZEN Mosaic EZ300. It’s the same 1.8-inch player but this time, the entire PMP is of one shade of Black or Pink. It plays MP3, WMA, WAV, Audible 4 music files and will have 4GB or 8GB of storage. [...]
Continue reading...20. May 2009
My new headphones above won the 2009 Red Dot Award for Product Design. It’s design aesthtic is classic and it’s supposed to be very light–the nickel and titanium ear hooks are the slimmest you could possibly make them–and stays hands-free, unlike those other headphones that you have to keep holding and readjusting as you move [...]
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2. November 2009
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