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2009-07-29 , 02:57
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This is a beautiful device with a lot of potential (emphasis on potential). Personally, I loved my Nomad Jukebox Zen 2.0, but it died long before it had outlived its usefulness. This left a bad taste in my mouth, and I've not purchased a Creative product since. The zii will get a lot of scrutiny before I drop the cash.
 
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2009-07-29 , 22:04
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Well, looks awesome on paper. Will wait for retail release and reviews. Have been burnt by Creative products before. As a programmer, I do love the idea of playing with the cell-based architecture but also think that porting applications will be a challenge.
 
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2009-07-30 , 17:13
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a new video:
http://asia.cnet.com/crave/2009/07/3...ative-zii-egg/

I owned all Nxxx tablets (n810 currently). I preordered the n770 long before the release.... but now, after being kind of disappointed with the tablet's performance, I think I'll switch to this zii when becomes available.
 

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2009-07-30 , 18:36
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The plastic case looks a bit ugly though..
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Hm. Not going to initially ship with Android ... and with only 1 button (a home button), I'm not sure how it will do "Menu" and "Back" button functionality. Guess we'll have to wait and see.
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2009-07-31 , 06:32
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This is the dev kit. The retail version will almost certainly default to Android. The OS Creative ships is just a tech demo.
 
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2009-07-31 , 09:27
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I like the idea of dual-core processor (or dual-processor core whatever). But is the processor in ZiiEGG armv5el? bad.. it means (K)ubuntu Karmic will never run on it.
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2009-07-31 , 19:29
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I like the idea of dual-core processor (or dual-processor core whatever). But is the processor in ZiiEGG armv5el? bad.. it means (K)ubuntu Karmic will never run on it.
O_o

You're criticising an embedded product not because of how well it runs its intended platform, but because you can't make it run a platform that isn't intended for embedded devices?

Do you dismiss wrist watches because they can't run kubuntu either? :-)
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2009-08-01 , 08:37
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O_o

You're criticising an embedded product not because of how well it runs its intended platform, but because you can't make it run a platform that isn't intended for embedded devices?

Do you dismiss wrist watches because they can't run kubuntu either? :-)
Nah, i just remembered the screen resolution and such

And my point was, that Karmic is armv6 not 5. Jaunty (which is armv5) would maybe run.

I didn't mean it should run (or be able to run) Kubuntu out of the box, i mean that kind of hardware (Dual-core processor able to decode/encode HD-video and 256mb RAM) could be able run Kubuntu, and that would be damn cool. me likes KDE (jaunty is armv5el anyway) If it had 800x480 screen Kubuntu wouldn't be unrealistic.

Kubuntu runs on n8x0 tablets anyway
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Originally Posted by johnkzin View Post
O_o

You're criticising an embedded product not because of how well it runs its intended platform, but because you can't make it run a platform that isn't intended for embedded devices?

Do you dismiss wrist watches because they can't run kubuntu either? :-)
Keep in mind Mer is Ubuntu based and for embedded platforms. This does bring up the question "When Ubuntu drops armv5 will Mer?"
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