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News announcement: Creative enters the Android phone mkt with this offering.I think this will not take off. 1080 and 3D for fark when no developer wants to develop for Android compare to iphone!

and 3.1 inch screen? HD and 3D on 3.1 inch???

Ready to start lusting after a new smartphone? If Creative has its way, you’ll soon be enjoying Full HD video on a 3.5 / 4G device, with built-in WiFi, 5 megapixel autofocus camera, accelerated 3D graphics, and mini-HDMI and Composite video outputs. The newly announced 3.1-inch, multitouch-capable Zii Trinity has been designed by Creative subsidiary Ziilabs, and will be licensed out to clients who’ll be able to customize a Zii-optimized Android install and Plaszma interface. As if we haven’t got enough smartphone ecosystems knocking about already, this also marks the introduction of ZiiLife, which aims to be both a content delivery and productivity suite. Powered by the ARM-based ZMS-05 or ZMS-08, the new handset actually seems destined to perform plenty of KIRF and grey market duties, judging by Creative’s “strategic partnerships” with Chinese manufacturers, but that might be no bad thing as, according to Gartner, the grey market is booming right now

[From Engadget >>]

Mr Sim Wong Hoo’s Creative is probably making their final stand with their Zii initiative. However, i feel this latest all in one chip actually makes alot of sense.

I see these all in one chip as a small size solution to numerous multimedia devices we use nowadays. With this, together with the Android platform, might provide a low cost, small size way for your television, ebook readers, pmp devices, handphone or even refrigerator from getting more intelligence and lower the cost of delivering value added electronics.

Having a chip embedded with WIFI and bluetooth cap will enable you to easily network your home devices next time.

I know i may be dreaming but i think its very viable and could be a good avenue for Mr Sim to monetize.

ZiiLABS’ ZMS-08 is a third generation mobile media accelerator / system-on-a-chip that boasts its predecessor’s 1080p playback and 24fps encoding, and HD video conferencing via simultaneous 720p encoding and decoding, while adding all-new OpenGL ES 2.0 support, an integrated HDMI controller, X-Fi audio and Flash acceleration. Paired to a 1GHz ARM Cortex A8, and running a custom flavor of Android alongside Plaszma OS, the new Zii chip will look for homes in “web tablets, netbooks, connected TVs” and the like, but seemingly not smartphones. ZiiLABS has already signed up a number of clients, who’ll start receiving shipments in Q1 of 2010. Full PR and an architectural diagram after the break.