Creative introduced new colours to their EP-630 and EP-650 in-ear earphones; the EP-630 now comes in Pacific Blue, Atlantic Green, Mediterranean Red, Arctic White and Pearl Black, while EP-650 comes in Mercury Abyss.
Creative Technology has introduced two new media players to their ZEN family - ZEN MX and ZEN Mozaic EZ300. Size of a credit card, the Creative ZEN MX is stylishly designed with good portability and value for money; the Creative Mozaic EZ300 comes in 4GB or 8GB capacity and offers great ease of use to the music and video lovers.
Creative has just announced their new Aurvana Air earphones which comes with a comfortable EaseFit ear-hook design for long music enjoyment and boasts superb audio performance for its users.
Today, Creative launches their latest sleek TravelSound for iPod nano for users to enjoy digital entertainment enjoyment anytime, anywhere. It features integrated FM radio tuner,rechargeable battery and a USB port to recharge the speaker and iPod.
GIGABYTE announce X58/P45/P43/P41 series motherboards as well as other motherboard series featuring the ALC889A or ALC888 audio codecs now offer support for Sound Blaster X-Fi Technology. Choose your board and download the respective drivers. However, there is a 30 day free trial period tag to it so you will have to pay a sum to Creative for continuous usage.
JC Hyun Systems develops the world’s first car infotainment system using Creative’s award-winning Xtreme Fidelity (X-Fi) technology to enhance the overall in-car audio experience of motorists. It is built using a powerful Intel dual-core (360/300MHz) processor. It features the MMSP2 MPEG video hardware engine, SiRF III GPS chipset and Creative Technology’s X-Fi Audio Processor. The RUNZ CI-7100 Car Infotainment System is now available in Singapore at a suggested retail price of S$1,999.00.
Creative has announced a net loss of US$32.4M ending last quarter while the revenue is slightly higher at $155.7M compared to $141.2M the previous quarter. The loss is expected and the COO of Creative has hinted on more difficult times ahead of the company.
Looking at the balance sheet in details, Personal Digital Entertainment business still contributes more than 50% of the revenue and it is no doubt Creative will continue to put more emphasis into it. Their soundcard business, on the other hand, has been pretty stagnant while their speakers and headphones business is seeing some declines.
It seems it would take a miracle to turn around Creative's book right now. However, the recent announcement of the Zii platform could inject some hope into the business. Now, what is left to be done for Creative is to get as many developers on board Zii platform and develop innovative products based on Zii.
Certainly, we would be waiting patiently for the first Zii product to be out. It is rumored to be a touchscreen PMP with computing and WiFi functionalities out somewhere in Q2. I would reckon and hope that it is using embedded Linux so software developers could write apps to run on it. Creative is moving towards Open Source which is one step in the right direction.
Creative introduced Silencer™, its proprietary noise-cancellation technology, today with the release of the Creative Tournament Gaming Headset HS-1100 - the world's first product to incorporate Creative's Silencer. The Creative Tournament Gaming Headset HS-1100 will be available from end April 2009 onwards at the suggested retail price of S$239.00
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About two weeks back Creative put up a teaser site about something called the Zii. Today, VR-Zone brings you the full story on this pint-sized computer.
It fits in your pocket, it's discreet and doesn't need to be fed metal oxide covered polyester tapes. Could this be the ultimate pocket digital camcorder featuring 720p HD recording? The Creative Vado HD could very well be the next best thing for capturing, America's Funniest, most disatrous sports, or some other kind of extreme thing in HD.
Tired of listening to your mediocre audio quality from your notebook PC? Perhaps its time to get this Creative ExpressCard Sound Blaster X-Fi for notebooks. Creative claims to provide superior audio quality for your music, movies and games. Let's see how good it is with a bonus - the new Creative Wireless Receiver.
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