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Interestingly enough, Creative has announced a product with the greatest potential out of other recent products known as the Zii Egg.  The device is set to run on Creative’s own Plaszma platform, as well as Google’s Android platform.  Developers will be able to create apps for both the Plaszma and Android platform.  For some reason, Creative likes to use a lot of -ahem- unique names such as Plaszma, StemCell Computing, and Zii Egg. 

All three of those terms are related in some way.  A way that we will probably learn more about as soon as people get their hands on the new Creative Zii Egg.  Perhaps what’s more interesting than the platform(s) it runs on is i’s hardware.  Just to give you an idea, it features both an HD camera and a normal VGA camera.  Since it features an HD camera, HD playback is supported. 

Obviously, Creative hopes to compete with the iPod Touch and Zune HD.  In addition, it boasts 32GB on internal memory, which is expandable via SD slot up to 32GB, 3.5 inch multitouch LCD screen, X-Fi audio processing, 256MB mobile DDR RAM, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, GPS, text-to-speech, and OpenGL ES support. 

As of now, the Zii Egg is available for OEM’s and developers for $400.  It is odd that Creative would toss such a promising product away to let other companies customize it however they wish.  Who knows, though, maybe it is the right decision to let others improve upon it.  Of course, the device could take another interesting turn of events and become a phone.  Either way, it looks pretty enticing and it will be interesting to see what the developers do with it and what other details Creative will release.

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