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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