Somebody apparently managed to get a camera up during Creative's presentation of its upcoming
Zii Mediabook e-reader, but unfortunately the UI mockup that was demonstrated on screen is hardly standard (no hints of Android, for instance), and it's hard to separate proposed UI elements from flashy video transitions. If there's anything to take away, it seems that the device has an edge to edge screen, and is heavily touch and gesture based on a very custom-seeming GUI. One thing that happens repeatedly in the video is that a bit of text is highlighted, and then when it's "flicked" up it shoots out as a web page or a video or what have you -- seems like an odd way to go about things, but it at least demonstrates that Creative isn't just working on any old e-book reader here. Hit up the read link for the vid.
posted Nov 1st 2009 2:22PM
That hand is REALLY yellow.
well theres no need to be racist about it!
this is cool though, creative has a tough time pulling through with a good unique UI though . . . theyre always on the KIRF side of things too much for my tastes. but this zii movement seems to be their new play - I'll pay attention
@bolezhinkov: How is that racist? It is yellow. What are we suppose to say? "It's so banana colored." ?
its a joke, feller.
It's coloured more like a Cheeto.
Zii is amazing!
I can literally flick a webpage off of the device and into thin air! And it floats too!
Geez that was some huge font adjust that man.
Looks as if it cross references highlighted text to what could be Wikipedia or something. Great idea! Context based (re)searching from a book would be so much easier than having to copy to the clipboard and then fire up a browser and searching within a specific site, such as Google, Bling or Wikipedia.
I feel compelled to visit your site, block all the ads, and then refresh constantly to waste your bandwidth.
Creative can try, but I doubt they can pull-off a device like this without some serious software issues.
I bought Zii Egg and its now a very expensive paper-weight. Though the Zii processor is very powerful, the software and device drivers are utter piece of crap. Their support forums are littered with people having issues with every single feature of their device. They are years away (if ever) fixing their software bugs. Unfortunately I can't even return it as its non-refundable.
Why on Earth would you have bought the Zii Egg if it wasn't to develop software for it? Its a DEVELOPER machine, for crying out loud!
I have one also, and you know what? Its getting a *LOT* of use.. you know why? Because I'm a DEVELOPER and have my code running on it .. and guess what, its my favourite thing to run my apps on, out of a suite of gadgets: iPhones, Android devices, Wiz, Touchbook. The reason? The Zii Egg is a very comfortable, powerful device.
But its only for DEVELOPERS right now. Who on Earth buys Developer-only products and then complains that they don't work Shitty developers, and keepingupwiththejoneses gadget fanboix, thats who ..
Jay Vaughan is right. You're practically an airhead if you buy a product that clearly has a "developer" stamp on it, and then expect it to be smoothly running with no hiccups.
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You may be a developer and so am I. If you get excited about your piece of code running on a cute little device, then all power to you. But I have programmed on developer devices before, including Google dev phone, but Zii Egg is a freaking nightmare. SO I gave up. You can't even get access to low level code to fix things. The touch screen is so inaccurate that you would know if its your code or the driver causing problem. Mariad of problems with Audio, Video drivers, Screen Freeze, device lock and so on. Developer edition doesn't mean it has to be crappy. Just look at other dev edition devices before you defend Zii Egg. And BTW keep your puppy, while I move on to better options coz this device has zero chance to be out or successful....
You're not a very good developer if you can't get audio, video, or pointer working on the Zii Egg with Plaszma by now .. in fact, you'd have to be a pretty poor one ..
BTW, G1 DEV phone was really crap to code for in its first release, too .. and now with todays new version of Plaszma OS Firmware release, things are going very smoothly on the Zii Egg.
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Anyone else see this and think "Crunchpad" ?