[sword-devel] Zii Plaszma Platform

avolunteer DrStovallFoundation pythondrs at yahoo.com
Sat Sep 12 21:04:20 MST 2009


Some good news but also see bottom post.

--- On Sat, 9/12/09, avolunteer DrStovallFoundation <pythondrs at yahoo.com> wrote:

> From: avolunteer DrStovallFoundation <pythondrs at yahoo.com>
> Subject: Re: [sword-devel] Zii Plaszma Platform
> To: "SWORD Developers' Collaboration Forum" <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
> Date: Saturday, September 12, 2009, 8:55 PM
> For a limited time they offer an SDK
> plus what looks like an iPhone & Android killer for US
> $399.  
> 
> Their developer page at https://secure.ziilabs.com/MyAccount/welcome.aspx?0
> gives these 3 steps to Development.
> Join ZiiLABS Developer Program

It has (& has promised) the best of everything except I cannot find that it has a phone.  My experience with the N800 has been that it is a great device if your are able to have WiFi all of the time.  But unfortunately, I and my third world friends with cell phones do not have WiFi all of the time.


> Sign Up for a Zii Account
> Here Zii.com
> Purchase the Plaszma SDK and ZiiEGG
> Login and Develop
> Start developing and get access to all the reference
> materials and sample applications.
> Their 3 representatives are in Asia, US, and Europe.
> 
> I would jump on it immediately if it were not from Creative
> with whom I have had the experience of over statements and
> under deliverance.  If you go to their home page it
> says that it will run Plasma OS and Android OS.  But in
> the fine print at the bottom it says the Android OS will
> come later.  I will phone and write my relatives in
> Singapore to see how it is doing fresh out of the factory
> there.  
> 
> I would certainly appreciate any input from anybody.
> 
> I think this is something in which crosswire should be a
> leader.
> 
> --- On Fri, 9/11/09, David Haslam <d.haslam at ukonline.co.uk>
> wrote:
> 
> > From: David Haslam <d.haslam at ukonline.co.uk>
> > Subject: [sword-devel]  Zii Plaszma Platform
> > To: sword-devel at crosswire.org
> > Date: Friday, September 11, 2009, 4:45 AM
> > 
> > This new platform may be of interest to you....
> > 
> > ZiiLABS Announces Plaszma™ - An Open Standards
> > Development Platform for
> > Integrators and Developers to Create Customized
> > Applications and Devices
> > 
> > The Zii Plaszma Platform Includes the Zii EGG
> Handheld
> > StemCell Computer
> > that Supports the Plaszma OS or Android™ OS.
> > 
> > http://www.ziilabs.com/news/releases/pr20090728A.aspx
> > http://www.ziilabs.com/news/releases/pr20090728A.aspx 
> > 
> > (It was brought to my attention due to the fact that
> the
> > Zii EGG hardware
> > contains several components from NXP Semiconductors.)
> > 
> > It would be nice to have a SWORD frontend for this
> new
> > platform, which is
> > the principal reason for mentioning it in this list.
> > 
> > -- David
> > 
> > -- 
> > View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Zii-Plaszma-Platform-tp25398074p25398074.html
> > Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at
> > Nabble.com.
> > 
> > 
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