Zii

Gaming

Nintendo Files Trademark For Zii, Is It The Wii 2 Though?

11:20PM December 15, 2009 | Kat Hannaford

If Nintendo’s follow-up to the Wii is actually called the Zii, I think that’s the first mistake right there. But could this mysterious trademark, filed in Japan in October, actually be for the Wii 2, or something else? More »


Mobile

A Quick Look At The Creative Zii Trinity Pumping Out Wall-E In Smooth HD

4:00AM December 7, 2009 | Jack Loftus

Mobile

Creative’s Android-Wielding Zii Trinity Captured On Video

3:40PM December 4, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Some new video footage of Creative’s Zii Trinity reference hardware, giving us a closer look at the hardware-for-hire. It looks pretty diminutive, but also pretty unfinished. More »


Gadgets

Zii Lives: First Look At The 1080p Android-Powered Trinity Phone

4:01PM December 1, 2009 | John Herrman

Remember the Creative/ZiiLabs StemCell system-on-a-chip from a while back? The one that spawned that Android PMP design? Well, the Zii project is marching on, which means new hardware, including the dual OS Trinity phone, 360ยบ HD webcam and more. More »


Gadgets

Creative Zii MediaBook Could Combine eBook And PMP Features

6:45AM November 2, 2009 | Jack Loftus

Details are sparse at the moment, but we do know this afternoon that Creative is hard at work on developing a “MediaBook” device that will combine video, pictures and text with what’s being described as an eBook form factor. More »


Creative Zii Egg Android PMP Makes Its Hands-On Debut

4:50AM July 31, 2009 | John Herrman

Creative’s Zii, which is either an extremely exciting platform for Android PMPs or a boring developers’ tool (nobody knows!) has turned up in CNET Asia’s offices. As you can imagine, it didn’t take long before they got a little handsy. More »


Creative Zii Egg Plaszma: Android-Wielding iPod Touch

12:23AM July 29, 2009 | Mark Wilson

Spotted in a recent FCC filing, the now-revealed Creative Zii Egg Plaszma boasts some of the world’s first “flexible StemCell architecture” that uses 24 floating-point processors. But you may care more because it’s basically an open source iPod Touch. More »


Creative “Zii” Moniker Resurfaces On Touchscreen Media Player

8:35PM July 7, 2009 | John Herrman

Creative hasn’t really been doing much at all for the last year. Except this, apparently: here’s an FCC filing for a Zii touchscreen PMP, which shares a name their mysterious system on a chip from January. More »


UPDATE: Creative Labs ‘Changing Business Model’, (Not) Pulling Out Of Australia?

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11:57AM January 12, 2009 | Nick Broughall

Creative sent through a release this morning stating that they were changing their business model. Originally I assumed it would have something to do with the new Zii platform, but after reading it through a couple of times, it sounds a lot more like they’re pulling operations out of Australia and running the show from Singapore. Have a read through yourself and tell me what you think: More »


Confirmed: Zii StemCell Computing Is Media-Savvy System on a Chip

10:00PM January 8, 2009 | Wilson Rothman

The smoke surrounding Creative’s rumoured offshoot, ZiiLabs, cleared today at CES, where it was revealed to be a media-application processor developer with a very slick system-on-a-chip, less consumer product than building block for many.

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