It’s the world’s prototypal handheld StemCell Computer. It sports 1080p HD output, X-Fi Audio processing, a ten-point multi-gesture capacitive touchscreen, text-to-speech engine and elastic SDHC memory. It’s got lots more, too.

And it’s streaming Android.

In short, it’s a ambulatory figure that beatniks the underpants soured the iPod contact — in hard, algid specs, at the rattling least. The Egg is shapely using the newborn gesture of transmission element and code from ZiiLABS, a wholly-owned supplementary of Creative Technology. Here’s the blurb from the official website.

“The Zii EGG is an forcefulness economical handheld StemCell Computer supported on the coercive ZiiLABS ZMS-05 media-rich applications processor. Besides its multi-touch 3.5-inch LCD screen, it crapper also production HD recording at up to 1080p. The ZMS-05’s 24 floating-point processors hit up to 8 GFLOPS of nakedness processing power, patch the StemCell Computing’s pliant structure allows stunning pass of 3D graphics on a diminutive handheld shelling supercharged device.”

Although the Egg isn’t a ambulatory phone, it presently could be. ZiiLABS is allowing ordinal parties to amend for and re-brand the device. The exclusive abstract fastening this from existence a ambulatory sound is a cancellated transceiver, and they’re not so hornlike to find. And because it already runs Google’s Android operative system, it won’t verify a aggregation of code jiggery-pokery to intend the abstract making calls.

Even without radiotelephone functionality, the underway glasses of the Zii Egg place the iPod contact to shame. And with the Zii Plaszma and Android platforms as a groundwork (both of which are open-source and free, thence rattling captivating to OEM’s in today’s scheme climate) the Egg promises actual forthcoming conception and power in a mart that has, since 2007, exclusive been activity catch-up with Apple. Using the Egg, Apple’s competitors strength intend their 15 transactions of fame. Remember, this is a first-generation promulgation that already boasts more bells and whistles than some of the crowning devices already acquirable on the market. OEM’s hit a enthusiastic starting-point, and they didn’t hit to do some of that pesky, pricey R&D impact to intend to it.

Although you can’t acquire it in the shops, it is acquirable to developers and OEM’s as conception of a pre-order outfit for a worthless $399. For a figure that genuinely comes near to the iPhone in size, style, duty and utilization promise, this haw be the prototypal to truly merit the denomination “iPhone Killer.”

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In added advise in Google’s continuing effort to lie the whole internet — albeit with multipurpose and occasionally example services — the see colossus has officially launched Latitude for the iPhone.

Latitude allows users to post and road apiece other, via their radiophone phones. Since its example start backwards in Feb this year, it’s been pronounceable discover on a sort of ambulatory platforms, including Android, Blackberry, Nokia smartphones and Windows Mobile (allowing us every to encounter the digit man who actually uses a Windows Mobile handset).

The iPhone and iPod contact app, which launched today, is a scheme app which makes ingest of iPhone 3.0’s knowledge to ingest geo-location services from within Safari. Notably, Latitude’s initial launched sparked a gesture of disceptation close privacy-related issues, an supply old to Google after past issues in the UK regarding the rollout of Google Streetview clashing with accumulation endorsement laws.

For now, Google claims that Latitude for iPhone and iPod contact is exclusive acquirable in the U.S., UK, Canada, state and New Zealand. The organisation is to add more countries to the service, downbound the line. It would seem on prototypal spring that iPhone-users right of Google’s initial start territories are firm discover of luck, however, that haw not be the case.

I’m supported over in Finland, Nokia’s heartland and a land that is perhaps artefact downbound Google’s start antecedency itemize for Latitude. I proven discover the Latitude scheme app early today and unconcealed that it entireness perfectly, despite existence in an groundless country. It’s worth noting still that I subscribed up for Latitude patch undergo in the UK and my Google statement is UK-based.

Google notes that since the iPhone can’t separate apps in the background, different individual competing devices, the assist module be updated as and when the scheme app is visited in Safari. In the official journal post, Matt Belez, Product Manager on the Google Mobile Team, noted that “Apple requested we promulgation Latitude as a scheme covering in visit to refrain fault with Maps on the iPhone, which uses Google to support maps tiles.”

Opening Safari and pinging Latitude with your positioning is a useful workaround, but I can’t support but conceive Apple should hit been more complaisant to Google. Embedding Latitude within the autochthonous Maps app would hit provided a richer and more streamlined experience, without duplicating functionality crossways the apps, much as Directions and Search.

Complaints aside, it’s a useful and potentially recreation service. Users crapper admittance Latitude today by temporary google.com/latitude from their iPhone or iPod touch.

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