Android 1.6 installer released for Zii Egg developers

Damian Koh | Nov 04, 2009

(Credit: Zii Labs)

A few months back when we had a hands-on with the Zii Egg, a Creative spokesperson said the company would provide the Google Android operating system after the device ships. Well, things appear to be going according to plans and, as promised, Zii Labs, the wholly owned subsidiary of Creative, has released the Android 1.6 installer for developers.

For those not in the know, the Zii Egg is positioned as an OEM product, so users may never actually see an official Creative-branded Zii Egg. In layman terms, the handset is simply a shell for developers to work on Creative's Plaszma platform. The Egg resembles the first-generation iPhone and supports multiformat HD video playback, HDTV output and accelerated OpenGL ES. It also has a scalable ZMS architecture that's supposed to be more efficient, while delivering a more media-rich experience on the device.

The developer edition of the Zii Egg is available from Zii Labs.

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