The Zii EGG is a handheld product platform from
Creative Technology
Creative Technology Ltd. is a Singaporean multinational technology company headquartered with overseas offices in Shanghai, Tokyo, Dublin, and Silicon Valley (where in the US it is known as Creative Labs). The principal activities of the compa ...
subsidiary
ZiiLABS
ZiiLABS is a global electronics company, producing a line of media-oriented application processors, reference platforms and enabling software, in a series of platforms named ZMS. Its products are found in low-power consumer electronics and embedded ...
. According to ZiiLABS, the Zii Egg was designed for OEM sales, meaning that the device was marketed to sell to third parties rather than retail customers where they can modify it and sell it under their own brand rather than Creative or ZiiLABS. Creative later introduced a consumer model, the
Creative Zii. The Egg was announced at the end of July 2009 with ZiiLABS' Plaszma OS platform and support for Google's
Android OS. The EGG was shipped from ZiiLABS in the later half of August 2009. The first available firmware with Android was released on November 2, 2009.
According to the Zii website the Zii EGG could provide
1080p
1080p (1920×1080 progressively displayed pixels; also known as Full HD or FHD, and BT.709) is a set of HDTV high-definition video modes characterized by 1,920 pixels displayed across the screen horizontally and 1,080 pixels down the screen ve ...
video, and the media engine for
video codec
A video codec is software or hardware that compresses and decompresses digital video. In the context of video compression, ''codec'' is a portmanteau of ''encoder'' and ''decoder'', while a device that only compresses is typically called an '' ...
, media processing and 3D graphics acceleration is an array of floating-point processors (most likely some kind of
digital signal processor cores) called ''StemCells''. The ZMS-05 used in the Zii EGG has 24 of these processing units.
Specifications
* Capacitive 10-point multi-gesture touch display
* Internal hardware GPS receiver
* 3.5” 320x480 color display
* Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR (only A2DP is currently supported, and is not yet implemented in their Android port)
* X-Fi software support (not yet implemented in the ZiiLABS SDKs)
* 3-axis Accelerometer
* Up to 32 GB Internal Flash Storage
* SDHC slot (supports up to 32 GB of external SDHC Card)
* Ambient light sensor
* 32 MB NOR Flash (Linux Kernel Boot ROM)
* 256 MB Mobile DDR RAM
* 720p and 1080p output (this only works via a proprietary adapter which has not been sold for over 6 months, though it is available via the Zii Dock accessory which is now available for sale)
* Composite video out (this only works via a proprietary adapter which has not been sold for over 6 months, though it is available via the Zii Dock accessory which is now available for sale)
* Microphone
* 2 cameras: 1 forward-facing VGA camera, 1 rear-facing HD camera
* 1200 mAH rechargeable lithium-ion battery
* Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g
Output connections
* USB 2.0 Mini-B (MTP and Charging)
* ZiiLink (a proprietary type of connector which is only available currently via the Zii Link ZiiEGG-docking station)
* HDMI (via ZiiLink)
* Component VGA(via ZiiLink)
* 3.5 mm headphone connector
* Built in mono speaker
See also
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Creative ZEN
ZEN is a series of discontinued portable media players designed and manufactured by Creative Technology Limited. The players evolved from the NOMAD brand through the NOMAD Jukebox series of music players, with the first separate "ZEN" branded mo ...
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Creative Technology
Creative Technology Ltd. is a Singaporean multinational technology company headquartered with overseas offices in Shanghai, Tokyo, Dublin, and Silicon Valley (where in the US it is known as Creative Labs). The principal activities of the compa ...
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Zii Labs
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Creative Zii
References
External links
ZiiLabs WebsiteZii EGG Developer WebsiteCreative Technology Website
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Portable media players
Touchscreen portable media players
Creative Technology products
Creative Technology
Android (operating system) devices