Creative to show off 'Zii Android mobile phone' next month at Chinese summit

We've been saying all along that we'd love nothing more than to see someone throw a 3G chip into Creative's Zii Egg and sell it as a pretty strong smartphone, but so far we've been hit with little to no indication of interested parties making that happen. So when we spot phrases like "Zii Optimized Android Phone platform" and "the line-up of devices on display includes a Mobile Phone platform" on an informational site for the ZiiLABS Showcase happening early December in China, our interested are definitely piqued. The event is geared towards companies who'd like to use the Plaszma platform for their products, and with any luck, some debonair decision-maker will give Zii phone a chance.

[Via myCreative Fansite; thanks, Kyle]

[(Unverified) Posted Nov 15th 2009 9:00PM]

A Creative smartphone?
I'm interested!
Specially if it comes stuffed with Android 2.0 and Creative's know how in cramming multimedia tricks in small formats and cool looks.
It's high time that a company like Creative gets over the stage of producing only small peripherals.
If they pull it off I'll try to find some space in my little portfolio for some of Creative stocks too.
After years of continuous successes in the higly innovative and highly competitive small peripherals market they have accumulated all the know how, the human resources, and the capitals to start branching out into something more challenging and more profitable and I bet that if they get off their hi tech asses their shares can make a buck for me too.