All eyes on Samsung's Tizen

SAMSUNG Electronics is beefing up its efforts to release a new operating system for smart devices.

The electronics giant said that it has opened registration for the first Samsung Developers Conference, scheduled to be held in San Francisco from Oct 27 to 29.

Expectations are high that the Seoul-based firm will release at the conference a new version of its mobile operating system Tizen - a project pushed mainly by the Korean firm, along with other mobile manufacturers and service carriers, including Intel and Huawei - and the first Tizen-operated smartphone.

The alliance was first formed in 2011 to reduce reliance on and further break away from Google's Android operating system.

It unveiled Tizen 1.0 and 2.0 last year and earlier this year, respectively.

Samsung has not yet released any smartphone equipped with the operating system.

Google and Apple accounted for almost 90 per cent of the mobile-OS market worldwide last year, according to research institute International Data Corporation.

The Samsung conference will provide insight into new tools to help developers create applications and services across Samsung devices and best-practice demonstrations, the firm said in a press release.

source:http://mypaper.sg/technology/all-eyes-samsungs-tizen-20130830

Tizen Smartphone Is Delayed To Create Best User Experience Says JK Shin

Samsung is always in the news for one reason or another, and today is no exception. Normally making news in the Android arena with their immensely popular Galaxy line of Smartphones and Tablets, especially the Galaxy S3 and updated Galaxy S4. Then they forged and defined an entirely new genre of Smartphone, dubbed the Phablet, with their Galaxy Note series, with the Note 3 being announced in a few days at IFA in Berlin. People laughed at the 5.3-inch display and the addition of an S-Pen, but the public reaction was positive and with over 10 million Notes sold, the Phablet is here to stay.

Samsung has also tried and scraped many projects to get to where they are now, the largest worldwide mobile phone seller in the world. One project Samsung is working on is their own OS, called Tizen, which is really an evolution of their Bada OS. A Tizen Association was formed within the Linux Foundation and is governed by a 

Technical Steering Group for the purpose of guiding the role of Tizen in the industry.
Samsung was not happy when Google bought Motorola and felt it would give them an unfair advantage with OS updates and innovations. CEO JK Shin claims they maintain a good working relationship with Google, but that Samsung has always sought to work with multiple Operating Systems

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After hearing so much about the Tizen OS, and Samsung’s determination to launch a Tizen phone this Fall, rumors started that Samsung was going to abandon Tizen. However, in an article we did at the beginning of this month, Mr. Shin made it quite clear that Samsung had broad ambitions for Tizen and it was more than just a “simple alternative for Android.”

Samsung Tizen Smartphone To Sport 720p screen and Qualcomm chipset

Samsung's first Tizen powered smartphone is set to arrive in October. As we had reported earlier that the device will hit Japan, France, United States, China and Russia first as the device supports the languages spoken in these countries.

We had earlier spotted the Tizen SM-Z9005 and now the device has surfaced again on the UAProf (User Agent Profile) string on Samsung’s website revealing additional details about its composition.

According to the UAProf, the upcoming Tizen-based smartphone will be seen sporting a 720p HD display and a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor. Though at this moment we are unsure about the screen size (possibly 4-inch or more) or whether it will house a dual or quad-core processor.

Samsung's decision to opt for Qualcomm instead of its in-house Exynos lineup of chips may not be too surprising, as the 4G LTE connectivity support is known to be an issue with Exynos chips. It's quite possible that Samsung will reserve the Exynos for markets which do not have 4G LTE support.

The Korean giant has a developer conference lined up for October 27 and it could take this opportunity to unveil the Tizen powered smartphone.

Source: http://www.knowyourmobile.in/samsung/8756/samsung-tizen-smartphone-sport-720p-screen-and-qualcomm-chipset

Tizen phones instead; Samsung officially retiring Bada

What started off as speculation and was soon to be inevitable, is finally official.

Samsung is giving up on the Bada OS but instead of sweeping its remains under the carpet, the Korean manufacturer will integrate its Bada OS into the Tizen OS project. This is first-hand information comeing from Hong Won-pyo, President of Samsung's Media Solutions Center.

Though smartphones running Bada won't be able to upgrade to Tizen when it's ready, the latter will be backwards compatible with Bada apps, which is good news for every new OS with a low profile app catalog.

Following Nokia's decision not to support MeeGo, the Tizen OS emerged as the open source project to realize all that exciting potential. Samsung are clearly hoping to use the platform in a bid to set themselves apart from the Android and Windows Phone crowd.

The Koreans have committed to releasing multiple devices running Tizen this year. Read full story