Zii will get accellerated Adobe Flash

While I'm not very fond of all the secrets behind Zii, this time Creative is actually involved in an interesting news post.

Adobe announced that it will offer an optimized version of Flash to run on Zii enabled devices, allowing for full acceleration of H.264 HD video. The effort is part of the Open Screen Project, led by Adobe, which aims to provide rich media content on all portable multimedia enabled devices.
This kind of support by companies like Adobe is what every hardware product needs to succeed, especially one based on a new type of architecture.
Adobe hasn't been so supportive of alternate PC and console architectures like PowerPC and ARM, so it is promising to know that Creative has managed to gather the necessary software base for the product to be successful.

Creative had already shown how the in-house built device with the ZMS-05 will look like and named it the Zii Egg. The device will be bundled with either the custom Plasma OS or a port of Google's Android and is a media player which packs a lot of hardware:

• 1080p HD output to TV/monitor via cable
  
• Composite output
• Ambient light sensor
• 802.11b/g WiFi
  
• GPS receiver
• Two cameras, one at the front and another at the back
• Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR
• SDHC slot
• 32GB of internal Flash
• X-Y-Z accelerometer
• 256MB of DDR memory

I find it hard to believe that what seems just one chip of DDR will provide enough bandwidth for 1080p output. 720p is possible and Creative showed 720p output of a downscaled 1080p video.
Architecture details are still to be unveiled but the whole device seems promising, especially given the open nature of the device.