As the recent smartphone market share report made absolutely clear, Android is far and away the most popular operating system in the world. Google would most certainly like to keep it that way, but did the company strong arm Samsung into slowing development of its own mobile OS, Tizen, in order to prevent unwanted competition? …
Unless Samsung was able to somehow pull a major prank on all tech sites covering Galaxy S6 and Galaxy Edge leaks, and convince everyone it’s indeed copying the iPhone 6 with the new Galaxy S generation, then it’s more than clear to any Android fan that the upcoming Galaxy S6 will be very similar to the …
One of the weirder trends that I’ve noticed at CES 2015 so far is the resurrection of three thought-to-be-dead smartphone platforms that have been brought back to life as smart TV platforms. Panasonic announced that its own smart TVs will run Mozilla’s Firefox OS, LG said that its new TVs would run on Palm’s beloved-but-defunct webOS, …
What would convince you to buy a new smart TV in 2015? How about a brand new operating system? Samsung revealed on Wednesday that each and every one of its smart TVs releasing in 2015 will run a new platform based around the Tizen OS.
Samsung has hit another roadblock in its troubled journey to replace Android as the primary operating system for its mobile devices. The Wall Street Journal reports that Samsung is postponing the release of its first Tizen phone, the Samsung Z, which was originally set to go on sale in Russia in the third quarter of this …
When the follow-up to the Galaxy Gear smartwatch is unveiled at Mobile World Congress next week, Samsung might surprise us all. USA Today reports that the Galaxy Gear 2 will ditch Android in favor of Samsung’s Tizen OS. Previous reports regarding Samsung’s operating system have indicated that the South Korean company has struggled to convince manufacturers …
When Japanese wireless carrier NTT DoCoMo indefinitely delayed its plans to release a Tizen smartphone on the same day it was supposed to launch in January, our idealistic vision of a new Samsung, free from the Android OS began to fade away. If Tizen never takes off, we might look back at that moment as the …
If you were looking to pick up a Tizen phone before they hit the market, you might have already missed your chance. G4Games came across an eBay listing for a “new Tizen Samsung SM-Z9005 smartphone for apps development,” complete with photos that match up very closely with the leaked press image from earlier in the …
It was beginning to look like Samsung’s answer to the Android operating system would never see the light of the day, but if this press photo is legitimate, we might finally have proof of a Tizen device that will actually be available to the public. Korean tech site Moveplayer managed to obtain the photo of …
Pushing forward despite a few major setbacks, Samsung will preview its lineup of Tizen smartphones in Barcelona on February 23rd, the day before Mobile World Congress begins. ZDNet Korea has obtained a copy of the invitation, which promises attendees “an exclusive sneak preview of the newest Tizen devices” and information about how Tizen has evolved since last …
