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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 18 days ago |
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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: ...
クリエイティブが動画やインターネットなどを楽しめる電子ブックリーダー「Zii MediaBook（仮称）」を発売へ
GIGAZINE —
... 」が真っ先に思い浮かびますが、どうやらもう一歩踏み込んだモデルとなるようです。 詳細は以下から。 epiZENter.net: Fansite for Creative Products この記事によると、クリエイティブは電子ブックリーダー業界に参入する意向であることを明らかにしたそうです。また、電子ブックリーダーのサンプルとして、実際に稼働する試作モデル「MediaBook（仮称）」を発表したとのこと。 「Zii MediaBook（仮称）」はタッチスクリーンや音声読み上げ機能などに対応しており、SDメモリカードスロットを搭載。動画の視聴や写真の快適な閲覧に加えて、FacebookやTwitterといったオンラインサービスなども対応したオールインワンマルチメディアタブレットになるとされています。 なお、クリエイティブは「Zii MediaBook（仮称）」向けのコンテンツを確保するために、17の新聞と100の雑誌を抱えるシンガポールの最大手出版社「Singapore Press Holdings」や、国内外の10の出版社と交渉しているそうです。 ・関連記事 ...
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. ...
Creative unveils plans for Zii MediaBook
SlipperyBrick.com —
... MediaBook will be a touch screen device with a color screen that offers much more media functionality than existing products reports Creative. The MediaBook will let users surf the net, access Twitter, and Facebook.
The machine will also let users watch video, view photos, and more. The device will also feature a SD card slot, text-to-speech function and more. Creative is in talks with content providers to get newspapers, magazines and other content types to the machine.
epiZenter
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 ...
Creative plans Zii Mediabook – Apple tablet fighting colour touchscreen ebook reader
Electricpig.co.uk - The UK's fastest-growing tech news site —
... already in talks with 10 international and Far Eastern publishers to provide content for the Creative Zii Mediabook. Plans include newspapers and magazines as well as fiction and textbooks.
Sadly, no one managed to get a snap of the new Creative device. So we’ve just got the styling of Creative’s Zii Egg media player as a guide to what it might look like. And there’s no news on pricing or a UK launch yet.
TBA | £TBA | Creative (via Epizenter)
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