They screwed up big time trying to takle on the Apple iPod with their Zen music player, now Creative Technology is having another crack at trying to take on Apple with several new iPad competitor which they are positioning as home and portable entertainment devices complete with wireless Bluetooth speakers and Bluetooth headphones.
They screwed up big time trying to takle on the Apple iPod with their Zen music player, now Creative Technology is having another crack at trying to take on Apple with several new iPad competitor which they are positioning as home and portable entertainment devices complete with wireless Bluetooth speakers and Bluetooth headphones.
Creative who lost millions trying to take out the iPod has introduced a 10-inch ZiiO tablet and a 7-inch version that run on the Android 2.1 OS. Available via the Companies online store no Australian retailers have announced plans to sell the new devices.
Four Wi-Fi-equipped Android 2.1 tablets, dubbed ZiiO Pure Wireless Entertainment Tablets, will be available in 7-inch and 10-inch versions, each in two memory capacities. They’ll be accompanied by three other Android 2.1 devices, the Zen Touch 2 Wireless Entertainment Devices with 3.2-inch touchscreens.
To boost audio playback performance, the ZiiO models incorporate multiple proprietary technologies, including the company’s low-latency Bluetooth apt-X codec to deliver high-quality audio wirelessly to speakers and headphones equipped with apt-X Bluetooth technology. X-Fi Crystalizer restores lost detail in compressed-music files. And X-Fi Expand widens and deepens game and movie sound fields through headphones and through the embedded stereo speakers.
The3.2-inch devices also stream stereo via Bluetooth to Bluetooth speakers and headphones but lack the ZiiO’s audio enhancements, according to information sheets supplied by the company.
Other ZiiO features include HDMI output, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, web browser, front-facing camera, accelerometer, built-in microphone, embedded stereo speakers, and support for multiple audio, video and digital-image formats.
The 7-inch model features 480 by 800 display with MicroSD Card slot supporting 32GB cards. The 10-inch version features 1,024 by 600 display with 32GB SD card slot. Their batteries deliver 25 hours of music playback or five hours of video playback.
