Zii TRINITY 3.5G-4G Smartphone announced by ZiiLABS

ZiiLabs, a company owned and operated by Creative Technology Ltd., has announced Zii TRINITY, a complete 3.5G/4G Smart Phone and development platform supporting the Optimized Android and native Linux-based Plaszma operating systems. The Zii TRINITY delivers superior High Definition 1080p video output and accelerated 3D graphics to enable OEMs and ODMs to quickly and cost effectively bring differentiated Android and Plaszma based solutions to market.

Zii Trinity is a smartphone that has quadband GSM/EDGE, triband WCDMA running at 7.2 Mbps, WiFi, GPS, 3.1 inch OLED screen with 800 x 480 pixels of resolution, mini HDMI port that can output 1080p video, 5 megapixel camera, and a 1130 mAh battery. Superior multi-format media processing is enabled by ZiiLABS' StemCell Computing array which lies at the heart of ZiiLABS' ZMS-05 and ZMS-08 media-rich applications processors, offloading the ARM CPU to deliver the low-power, high performance media-rich processing required of next-generation mobile devices. Accelerated OpenGL ES 3D graphics enable developers to create rich 3D experiences in the form of enhanced user interfaces, games and pedestrian navigation.

Features of the Zii TRINITY 3.5G Concept Phone
+ Quad-band GSM/GPRS/EDGE, Tri-band WCDMA, HSDPA Cat 8 at 7.2mbps
+ Full featured platform featuring ZMS-05 StemCell Processor
+ Linux-based Zii Optimized Android and Plaszma Support
+ Accelerated OpenGL ES 3D Graphics, Video and Imaging
+ 3.1-inch 480x800 16M colour Active Matrix OLED with capacitive multi-touch
+ Mini HDMI port for 1080p video output
+ Xtreme Fidelity#8482 X-Fi audio technology
+ 5 megapixel rear facing, auto-focus camera
+ VGA forward facing camera for video conferencing
+ USB 2.0 Micro port for connectivity and charging
+ MicroSD storage expansion and SIM card slots
+ 256MB low-power DDR memory
+ Integrated Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Bluetooth 2.1 EDR and Hardware GPS
+ Composite Video output
+ 1130mAH lithium polymer battery

The Zii TRINITY Platform can be supplied to potential cellphone manufacturers as a complete design package including schematics, Gerbers, mechanical drawings, Board Support Package, middleware and OS.

A Zii Development Kit '3G Phone Edition' provides a modular development platform that enables developers the flexibility to innovate around the Zii TRINITY platform to create product solutions based on their own preference of hardware components. The Zii Development Kit supports both the ZMS-05 and the recently announced ZMS-08 processors.

Future versions of the Zii Development Kit Phone Edition will be made available for 4G networks such as WiMAX or LTE.