07 Jul 09 Creative’s first Touchscreen player leaked

It’s not easy being an editor of a Creative fansite. I see other companies like Cowon and Samsung making sweet touchscreen devices, while Creative puts out things like the…Zen Moo. Perhaps now we have something to get a little excited about. A recent FCC report was leaked, revealing an upcoming touchscreen player called the “Zii”, as well as a developer model called the “Zii Egg”. As many of you know, the Zii is a powerful processing chip that Creative hyped a few months ago.

The mock-ups above look pretty similar to the back of an iPhone, but there’s not much else to go on. So far we know the device will have built-in WiFi, Bluetooth, and will be equipped with an HD camera. It’s possible that the Zii/Zii Egg will be running on Android as Creative showed off a tech demo of the Zii chip playing HD video on Android at the Mobile World Congress back in February. It’s nice to see Creative finally catching up, but I just wonder if it’s too late. The Zii Touch will have to be amazing to compete with other upcoming players like the Zune HD. If the past is any indication, we may see this player announced some time in August.

via epiZENter

07 Jul 09 A little favour for our Friends at AMP3.co.uk

Back when we started up in 2004, yes, way back then, we had an absolutely brilliant crew member who wen by the name of Robert Sinke, in his wisdom he teamed up with a smallish online store in the UK called AMP3.co.uk, luckily for us AMP3 grew to be a rather large online store and with the revenue Robert managed to generate from AMP3 offers and such DAPreview was able to improve and improve over the years.

Sadly Robert is no longer part of the DAPreview team, and with his absence our links with AMP3 had somewhat died down, however whenever we hear good news about our friends in Scotland we do like to pass it on because at the end of the day without them we might not be here. So when we got wind that they had been nominated for Retailer of the Year by UK magazine “T3″ we were absolutely delighted. It’s a great achievement for them, especially given that we know just how hard they’ve worked over the last two years to really improve their customer service and stock range. So if you’ve got a spare couple of seconds click the link and vote for them (or if you feel one of the other nominees deserve it more vote for them)

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