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Engadget: Creative working on Zii-based MediaBook with color touchscreen, e-book slant
Gizmodo: Creative Zii MediaBook Could Combine eBook and PMP Features [Ebooks]
Mobilewhack.com: Creative to Launch MediaBook Color eBook Reader?
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@jig yet more ereader linkage for you! http://bit.ly/1CXxlu 21 days ago |
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Kindle？ http://bit.ly/1CXxlu 21 days ago |
Creative working on Zii-based MediaBook with color touchscreen, e-book slant
Engadget —
... What's an e-book without the e-ink? So very much, according to Creative, who just dropped word of an upcoming "MediaBook" device (which will undoubtedly look nothing like this mockup above). It sounds a bit more like a PMP to us, with "video, pictures, text ...
Creative Zii MediaBook Could Combine eBook and PMP Features [Ebooks]
Gizmodo —
... (pictured) earlier today. There will be a touchscreen, which would make this slate/tablet markedly different than an ebook like the Kindle, although somewhat similar to the Nook. That's all for now. [Epizenter via ...
Creative to Launch MediaBook Color eBook Reader?
Mobilewhack.com —
... platform and itâs said to come with some very impressive features like a color touchscreen display ready to let you read all the eBooks you want and support for videos and pictures. Although this MediaBook did get leaked there are no leaked pictures yet. And itâs way too early for pricing details and release dates so weâll all have to wait for Creative to announce the reader until we get too excited about it. via epizenter Tags: ...
Creative Zii MediaBook breaks cover
SlashGear —
... last month. Creative has now announced the coming of the next device in the Zii family called the Zii MediaBook. The MediaBook is the company’s first entry into the eBook market. The device will compete alongside the Barnes & Noble Nook and the Amazon Kindle. ...
What is Creative’s Zii MediaBook?
AndroidGuys —
... According to epiZENter.net, the MediaBook sports a nearly edge-to-edge touchscreen, text-to-speech, and an SD card slot. You know, things that Android would work well with. The highlighting and flicking that is shown throughout the short clip is not something we see in other ebook readers and could help differentiate Creative’s offering. Imagine a high school book that has video of science experiments in the margin, sounds of various animals, clickable pictures from battles, olde tyme radio broadcasts… You get the idea. ...
What is Creative’s Zii MediaBook?
AndroidGuys —
... According to epiZENter.net, the MediaBook sports a nearly edge-to-edge touchscreen, text-to-speech, and an SD card slot. You know, things that Android would work well with. The highlighting and flicking that is shown throughout the short clip is not something we see in other ebook readers and could help differentiate Creative’s offering. Imagine a high school book that has video of science experiments in the margin, sounds of various animals, clickable pictures from battles, olde tyme radio broadcasts… You get the idea. ...
Creative Zii To Join Nook, QUE, Alex, Kindle In E-reader Market
ChannelWeb Complete Feed —
... Online Creative fan site epiZENter late Friday wrote that Creative used its annual general meeting last week to discuss plans to enter the e-reader market. The company showed a working prototype of the Creative Zii MediaBook and said it hopes to differentiate it from the other e-readers in the market with additional features, including a touch screen, a text-to-speech function and an SD memory card slot, according to epiZENter. The entire epiZENter center story can be read by clicking here . epiZENter also wrote that the Creative Zii MediaBook will include videos, ...
Creative Labs debuts Zii powered MediaBook
TG Daily - All News —
Creative Labs has debuted a prototype e-reader at its annual general conference. According to EpiZenTer , the MediaBook is expected to feature a touchscreen, text-to-speech capabilities and an SD memory card slot. Creativ Zii MediaBook Creative spokesperson Willie Png explained that Creative's Internet-enabled device would create a "media-rich" experience by harnessing videos, pictures, text and services. He added that Creative Labs is currently negotiating with 10 publishers to provide content for the device, which is likely to include fiction, newspapers, magazines and ...
And now Creative is jumping into e-book readers and tablets and funcookers and such
CrunchGear —
... We’re withholding judgment on the Zii platform until somebody really gets a chance to use it in a final form (you can see video of it running Android here), but little did we know that Creative has more planned for the vaguely-defined media platform than PMPs. They’ve just announced that we can expect a sort of media player/e-book reader with the Zii branding sometime… sometime in the next couple years I’d say. They actually showed a unit, boasting about its color touchscreen, but apparently nobody thought to take pictures. So we’re all left ...
