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Leaked iPhone Bezel Actually for Creative Zii Egg?

uberamd said:
Why does it show the EDGE symbol, dialer app and bars if it is an iPod-like device?
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I noticed that, too. I think it's because they're not done porting Android to it.

The first release of the device will NOT be running Android. It's running Creative's "Plaszma" OS (as the linked article states), and Android will be a firmware update (as the video in that article states).

So, the combination of odd status bar indicators (for a non-phone), and that last datum ("Android will be an update that follows later), lead me to believe that they're not done porting Android to the device.
 
Like the form factor, too bad its not a phone... I'll be glad when someone makes a high end Android phone that is close to the quality of the iphone...
 
Bjohnson33 said:
I know a lot of people keep asking for a front-facing camera, but what is the big attraction to it? I really can't see myself wanting to do video calls very often. Even with Skype on the computer, I use the video feature very rarely. Maybe it's just me, but does anyone else agree with me?
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Isn't the only reason for making video calls personally to "talk" to your boyfriend/girlfriend who is away?

Other than that I suppose you use them in business.
 
Good catch! An iPod clone--seems like an obvious possibility in hindsight.

Bjohnson33 said:
I know a lot of people keep asking for a front-facing camera, but what is the big attraction to it? I really can't see myself wanting to do video calls very often. Even with Skype on the computer, I use the video feature very rarely. Maybe it's just me, but does anyone else agree with me?
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Yes, some people do. Some people disagree :)

Any feature is useful to those who want it, and not to those who don't :) Some people never use the GPS, I imagine.

I make video calls on my Mac with iChat pretty regularly (few times a week). A great way to keep in touch across long distances.

On my phone I might use it even more! I wouldn't have to be at my desk, I could be "anywhere."
 
uberamd said:
Why does it show the EDGE symbol, dialer app and bars if it is an iPod-like device?
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Because by default it comes with plasma os installed. That pic you see is from the video where it shows that you can install Android on it however the device doesn't have a cellular radio and Android hasn't been modified for non cellular devices so it still has the phone features on the device even though they wont work.

As the guy in that video points out its meant for developers to build apps. I don't fully see a point of that device for only developing as the design of it really allows for some great apps, from what was said in that video I would be very happy with that device if it had a cellular radio and could run iPhone OS. I think the iPhone would benefit from having these new features however I do understand why they weren't added, Apple can't add huge features every year because they would run out of new hardware things to add giving you mostly OS changes after that. If Apple had added the new camera, OLED screen, front facing camera and all the other things we would have loved what's left for 10? Not very much so while I was disappointed with the 3GS I accepted it and as the loyal apple fanboy I ran out and got one.
 
Bjohnson33 said:
I know a lot of people keep asking for a front-facing camera, but what is the big attraction to it? I really can't see myself wanting to do video calls very often. Even with Skype on the computer, I use the video feature very rarely. Maybe it's just me, but does anyone else agree with me?
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Maybe everyone you know is within eyesight? :)

We video Skype all the time at our house and on vacation. We have kids and relatives and friends in Australia, Hawaii, Florida, NC, Washington, Nevada, New York... you name it.

Video calls are terrific. We get to see drawings, grandkids, vacation spots, new gadgets and furniture, all sorts of things.

I would love to not carry a laptop on trips for video calls, but just a small device.

If video had been around when I was a teenager or at college or in the Army... whoo hoo! Sure would've been great.
 
Well...

The Creative modular concept looks promising though.
It could be an interesting way to develop an iphone/ipodtouch with the same identical hardware and then add your module based on your choice: 8, 16, 32 memory + wifi only or 3g data only or 3g and voice, 4g,... a la carte.
:)
 
Speaking from the point of view of my last day at Apple retail is tomorrow:

Serves each customer right that came in and tried to assure me that bezel was with 100% certainty the next iThing, and would not shut up about trying to figure out when THIS model is coming out.

Some of you take this rumor stuff too serious, and should stop annoying retail employees about what you saw on this forum. They NEVER know. All they know is what you saw on the front page of MacRumors and how annoying it really is that you go out of your way to bother them about it.
 
http://www.anythingbutipod.com/

Another pic of it.

I honestly think it looks good and sleek. Everyone keeps saying how ugly it is because it doesnt have that little apple somewhere on the case and automaticaly think it trash/ugly.:rolleyes:

However, being an ex big fan of creative, the last few products I bought from them barely lasted a year or was glitchy and and eventually became a brick.

Would be cool if it were a phone though. :)
 
aokiqiao said:
honestly think it looks good and sleek. Everyone keeps saying how ugly it is because it doesnt have that little apple somewhere on the case and automaticaly think it trash/ugly.:rolleyes:
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No, I just think an MP3 player made in 2009 shouldn't look like it had its interface designed by a 3 year old.

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Look how ugly the UI is.
 
Huh. Funny coincidence. However, put in a phone element in the next iteration and the iPhone has competition. I'd buy it over the G1, anyway. But the UI sure is ugly!
 
Eraserhead said:
No, I just think an MP3 player made in 2009 shouldn't look like it had its interface designed by a 3 year old.



Look how ugly the UI is.
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I was talking about the shell. The homescreen on the other hand doesnt look as polished but look at it. Its basically a plain screen with three icons and a clock. Chances are this thing isn't going to look like this when it comes out. It's too soon to be judging the homescreen now as Im sure it'll off offer more than 3 icons for navigation on the homescreen come release day.

Go read up at anythingbutipod.com

While the Zii EGG is a finished product it is not quite ready for the consumer market. Creative is banking on developers to build applications and entire user experiences out of the Zii EGG hardware though Android and their own Linux based OS dubbed Plaszma.
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aokiqiao said:
I was talking about the shell. The UI on the other hand doesnt look as polished but look at it. Its basically a plain screen with three icons and a clock. Chances are this thing isn't going to look like this when it comes out. It's too soon to be judging the UI now as Im sure it'll off offer more than 3 icons for navigation on the homescreen come release day.
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It's not a UI, it's a desktop/home-screen.

It's like looking at the iPhone application icon grid and saying "the UI is ugly".

The iPhone grid of application icons, and the Android grid of application icons (which is under that tab at the bottom of the screen) are neither pretty nor ugly. The icons themselves? debatable, and entirely in the eye of the beholder. But, frankly, if you think the home screen on Android is ugly, it's no better nor worse than the iPhone. If you're going to judge the entire GUI

However, NEITHER of those is that platform's "User Interface". A user interface is the entire set of behaviors, designs, and widgets that the device uses for user interactions. Android has other desktop/homescreen widgets besides the clock. You can put any application icons you want into the 3 screens of 4x4 grids with those widgets, and you can put folders of application icons on the desktop as well. And even THAT isn't "The User Interface" -- that's just the home screen.

The virtual keyboard ... also part of both UI's. Your finger is also part of both UI's. Inertial scrolling (flicking your finger to make a list fly across the screen) is part of both UI's. Miller Column Browsing (with 1 visible column) is very pervasive on Android's menu systems ... as well as on both the original iPods and the iPhone (though, it looks very different between the original iPods and the iPhone or Android).


So, tell me how, from that picture, you know that the virtual keyboard is ugly? Or how that picture shows us that inertial scrolling is ugly. Or how any of those things being ugly isn't also a criticism of the iPhone UI being ugly.
 
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