No photos of the hardware yet. Other known features of the Zii MediaBook: Internet-capable, SD card, text to speech feature, and multimedia support.

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An X-Fi2 starts at $129.99. This is the 8GB model. The model tops at 32GB, plus the extra storage made possible by the microSD slot.

Specs includes:

• 3-inch touchscreen
• WMV, MPEG, XviD and DivX support (video support of 640 x 480)
• X-Fi technology
• Speakers, FM, Voice recorder, RSS reader

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It’s a touchscreen PMP for the desperately poor, I think. EpiZENter says Creative may not get into the touchscreen business altogether if the X-Fi2 doesn’t sell. I think they should focus on Zii.

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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, FLAC, and Audible music files
• WMV9, Divx, Xvid, MPEG-4 SP
• X-Fi audio
• AV Out, voice recorder
• FM tuner
• RSS feed (via PC)
• battery: 25 hours of audio, 5 hours of video
• $129 (8GB), $179 (16GB) and $229 (32GB)

[more at dapreview] video demo of the ZEN X-Fi2 after the break:

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 (video below) of the Zii Egg, which are superb. Hopefully, it won’t take too much time before Creative gets the Zii Egg market ready. We’d be more than ready by then.

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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 multi-gesture touchscreen, dual camera (one being an HD video recorder), GPS and up to 32GB of memory. Inside is the soon-to-be-famous Zii StemCell platform dubbed Zii Plaszma, which is an Android OS in combo with Creative’s Zii chip. The Creative Zii could could be sold for as low as $199. The Plasza is being sold to manufacturers as an OS, SDK kit and hardware.

Creative hasn’t officially packaged the Zii PMP for retail, so we might see a different-looking hardware when it comes out. Right this moment, though, we are reeling with

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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 of Android. It’s too early to call the Creative Zii an iPhone clone but sure is heading in that direction to me. Now, I have no ideas myself, but I wish someone could design a PMP or phone form factor that makes room for a lot of screen space but remains pocketable like the iPhone. Any ideas, dear readers?

Also, take note that Creative has previously announced the Zii Stemcell computing. Will we finally see what Zii Stemcell is?

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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. Price is 49.99 pounds ($81 $59.99) for the 4GB and $79.99 for the 8GB.

I have to agree that the Mosaic EZ300 is much easier for the eyes compared to the original mosaic, but believe me, cheap MP3 players are available with more features.

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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 your head. Not only that, from the “Neodymium magnet drivers with ultra-slim high performance diaphragms” to the “Superior thermoplastic elastomer coated cabling” that “resists tangling and significantly reduces contact noise when the cable brushes against your clothes,” it’s designed outside as well as inside to exceed its MSRP value of $199.99. Unlike Apple, Creative actually seems to care about good music.

Learn more about the Creative Aurvana Air headphones from the links below.

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