Creative’s uber-device, the Zii, is looking to be a firecracker. With dual cameras, lots of space inside, and Android compatibility as well as Creative’s Plaszma OS, it looks like it may out-Touch the Touch. Not only this, but it’s been revealed that the Zii also will be the first to run a specialized version of Opera. I trust Opera to go all in with a mobile browser like this; I have fond memories of the Ocean’s Opera Mini browser, and this should be ten times better.
Do you think the versatile Zii will be able to take advantage of any of the cool Opera Unite tools that were revealed a while ago? I’m not a fan of cloud stuff on desktops and other stationary devices, but on a device that is naturally mobile, it’s a good fit.
Makes sense. Opera Devices ( http://www.opera.com/devices/ ) is the browser of choice for the DS, Wii, PS3 and lots of other places you wouldn’t think. It’s pretty solid, well supported and is quickly becoming HTML5 compliant. Good choice on their end.
As for Unite my guess is yes BUT it needs to be rolled into the browser release and every future update (not added by the end user). IMO it could be a killer feature (think ultra-simple device sync to the cloud over wifi) but it won’t happen unless Creative can be convinced of its value (which could very hard).
I wouldn’t of thought of Unite on a device but it’s a great idea.
I agree that convincing Creative could be hard, but would we actually have to? With the Zii/Plaszma/Android all being open source, could we just convince someone else to think it’s important and build an app to do it for us?