The egg is built using the new wave of multimedia hardware and software from ziilabs, a whollyowned subsidiary of creative technology. Spotted in a recent fcc filing, the nowrevealed creative zii egg plaszma boasts some of the worlds first flexible stemcell architecture that uses 24 floatingpoint processors. While its not exactly a consumer product, the potential it holds for developers could inadvertently affect how consumers view mobile devices in future. I spent 5 years at apple and then a couple years at a crossplatform remote engineering company. Egghead is no longer in business and has no email or phone support options. Os the company offers its own plaszma os but thats a bit less exciting. Creative zii egg manuals manuals and user guides for creative zii egg. Singapore vocus december 1, 2009 creative technology ltd. Ziilabs is a pioneering developer of fully programmable mediarich appliction processors capable of delivering a rich mix of accelerated video, imaging, 2d and 3d graphics, audio and floating point capabilities within a ultra low power mobile device. Well, creative has been making pretty good music players with features that are even better than the ipods, if you ask me and theyve started teasing us about the newest one. The egg ships with the plaszma software an optimized version of android can be loaded onto it, and the company plans to release shortly an aftersales installer upgrade to make. Egs calcmenu culinary software for commercial kitchens. The zii egg is a handheld product platform from creative technology subsidiary ziilabs. It was founded by victor alhadeff in 1984, and grew into a chain with over 200 stores in the united states and a few in canada.
Ziilabs zms05 and zms08 sdk and development boards ziilabs originally 3dlabs is singapore company, subsidiary of creative technology, that provides media application processors for consumers electronics and has offices in the uk, china, usa and singapore. The zii egg is an energy efficient handheld stemcell computer based on the powerful ziilabs zms05 mediarich applications processor. Symphony zii stock firmware rom flash file firmware file. The company is looking to sell rebranded zii eggs directly to other manufacturers as an oem product. Unfortunately, the company filed for bankruptcy in 2001. Its stores were primarily located adjacent to shopping malls. Its hard to know where to begin with this, but creative has confirmed that zii egg handheld we saw pass through the fcc a few weeks ago, and proceeded to. No net neutrality remove filter rtechnology is a place to share and discuss the latest developments, happenings and curiosities in the world of technology. Creative is working on these creative zii egg products based on their arm based processor. Creative has just offically launched their new zii egg touchscreen media device. The flash file rom also helps you to repair the mobile device, if it is facing any software issue, bootloop issue, imei issue, or dead issue. The zii egg represents the first significant engineering push which creative have taken since their glory days around the turn of the. Hell, even their claim to fame, soundcards, are average at best. Now, with zii, market watchers are once again talking it up as creatives next big thing.
Zii egg could give the iphone and ipod touch some real. Ziilabs releases zii optimized android for its plaszma. Egs calcmenu is an advanced software used by chefs and food professionals to manage recipe and ingredients data to ensure. Creative zii and zii egg touchscreen players with hd cameras. Spotted in a recent fcc filing, the nowrevealed creative zii egg. We have 1 creative zii egg manual available for free pdf download. The zii egg developer edition, is a sleek, handheld development platform that enables.
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. Hard to believe, we know, but the company weve all but forgotten looks. Ziilabs originally 3dlabs is singapore company, subsidiary of creative technology. On a more surprising front, air support will be coming to the zii egg platform. The zii egg is capable of outputting video in 1080p and its abundance of features listed below combined with. Creative says zii egg is worlds first handheld based on stemcell computer technology developed by the company itself. The zii egg may not be available, or for online purchase in all regions, please follow the buy link for more details. About creative corporate milestones creative store. Standard recipe data, optimized food costing management, correct nutritional information, centralized storage of information, and link to other systems. The company last year launched a video conferencing system called inperson, but that has yet to become a hit. Zii egg provides a powerful platform for creating compelling solutions that.
Creatives just rolled out a firmware update version 92. Ziilabs unveils zii egg, a wifi android device pc world. And the ipods nearest competitor right now are those pmps from that little taiwanese company called creative. Another note, zii is the name of the company that built the egg and more importantly the chip that powers it. To utilize some of the zii egg features may require a firmware update that will be available in the future or will require developers to create or procure software to utilize the features. Whats bogus is to claim that creative makes hiend stuff. An optimized version of android can be loaded onto it, and the company plans to release shortly an aftersales installer upgrade to make that possible. Free creative zii egg whatsapp messenger software download. Plaszma the cornerstone of stemcell computing plaszma is an open standard development platform designed to let you create customized applications and devices. Ziilabs is a global technology company, producing a line of mediaoriented application processors, reference platforms and enabling software in a series of platforms named zms. Thanks to the folks at creative, we were treated to a sneak peek at its recently announced creative zii egg. Founded in 1984 by victor alhadeff, egghead software was a computer software retail company that sold products through its stores across the united states and online. Ziilabs is a global technology company, producing a line of mediaoriented application processors, reference platforms and enabling software in a series. The device is in its stock form a competitor to the ipod touch with a 3.
Ziilabs unveils zii egg, a wifi android device singaporebased ziilabs has unveiled a new mobile computer thats like an androidbased ipod touch. Their speakers are nothing to write home about, and i cant understand why you would value them so highly. Creative came clean on its zii projectfirst teased back in january with news of the companys revolutionary stem cell computing chips. With more than 40 years of combined experience in healthcare technology, lyniate brings together the expertise of. Egghead software was a computer software retail company. Ziilabs announced zii plaszma, an open standards development platform for integrators and developers to create customised applications and devices, including the zii egg stemcell computer, plaszma os and plaszma software development kit sdk. The powerful plaszma core software harnesses the full capabilities of the. The updates include adding support for media playback on the sd card, a. Creative unveils zii egg ipod touch killer macdailynews. Creative came clean on its zii projectfirst teased back in january with news of the company s revolutionary stem cell computing chips. Ziilabs unveils zii egg, a wifi android device network. But joking aside, zii egg is a pretty big story that shows how android is and will allow smaller innovative companies zii labs to breakthrough the barriers to entry in the mobile market and. Singapore vocus november 4, 2009 ziilabs, a pioneering media processor and platforms company and a whollyowned subsidiary of creative technology ltd.
Symphony zii stock firmware flash file the flash file will help you to upgrade, downgrade, or reinstall the stock firmware os on your mobile device. These are designed to create products that target a range of lowpower consumer electronics and embedded devices, including androidbased phones and tablets. Creative debuts androidpowered zii egg for developers and. I dont know why people keep calling it the creative zii egg when it isnt, creative. Its products enable oems, odms, system integrators and software. But joking aside, zii egg is a pretty big story that shows how android is and. Top 20 us egg company profiles find out more about the companies watt global media ranks as the top 20 table egg producers in the us in 2015.
Creative unveils touchscreen zii egg for developers and oems. Creative today introduced touchscreen zii egg and plaszma platform for developers and oems. The main downfall of this phone could be the name it sounds like something a french guy would say on easter sunday. Creative zii egg quick start manual 14 pages brand.
A company may work more efficiently if employees have familiar software available, instead of learning how to use an entirely new set of tools and features. Creative unveils touchscreen zii egg player jul 28 macnn. Creative unveils touchscreen zii egg for developers and. Lyniate integrated healthcare systems corepoint health. Lyniate is the new home of corepoint and rhapsody, two industryleading interoperability platforms that enhance healthcare ecosystems through seamless connectivity to unlock the potential of data, onpremises and in the cloud.
Creative labs zii and zii egg just made their first appearance at the fcc. Advanced arm cortexa9 based application processors. Zii egg handheld stemcell computer ziilabs pioneering media. Back in january, creative announced, with of an offshoot company called ziilabs, zii. Arriving late to touchscreen players, creative today unveiled the zii egg. Hd video acceleration and full flash support have officially been announced by ziilabs.