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Samsung And Docomo Reportedly Working on Tizen Phone

Posted by Unknown on from the meego-lives-on dept.

sfcrazy writes with this excerpt from Muktware: "Samsung, which became a market leader thanks to Android, is reportedly working on a smartphone powered by Linux-based Tizen operating system. The company is working with NTT Docomo to create a Tizen powered smartphone. ... Samsung already has its Bada operating system which it uses in some devices. Samsung was expected to merge Bada efforts with Tizen but there has been no attempt in that regards. How Samsung, the Android market leader, positions this phone and creates an app ecosystem around it will be interesting to watch."

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  1. They can't be serious! by erroneus · · Score: 4, Funny

    Are they just Tizen us?

  2. Re:Hmmm by ClaraBow · · Score: 4, Informative

    Dude, stop trolling. It's Microsoft that's collection money on every Android/ Linux phone sold!

  3. The ecosystem is already there by gmuslera · · Score: 4, Interesting

    is called HTML5. A lot of the stack can be found and used elsewhere (i.e. Apache Cordova) and shared by a lot of mobile OSs (webos, tizen, bada, sailfish, mer, and probably others, and more important, could be installed in the other platforms, including desktop.

  4. Anybody here excited? by horza · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Going to tizen.org web site, they seem pretty determined to hide information from potential developers. It's not until you get down to the tutorials that they admit supposed "apps" are just html and javascript pages. I can't see a future for a platform with no apps apart from toy ones. I guess it's aimed at dumb-phones given away free by the carriers, but a phone with no apps is going to be a hard sell.

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  5. Samsung/Microsoft joint venture by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Samsung is working with Microsoft in search software for its phones. They're going to call it:

    <puts on sunglasses>

    Bada Bing!

  6. Re:Meamo + Moblin = Meego - Nokia + Samsung = Tize by ArhcAngel · · Score: 4, Informative
    I suspect you were tl;dr the links I supplied. The Meego web site has a post from Imad Sousou of Intel's Open Source technology center handing the torch off from Meego to Tizen.

    Tizen has nothing in common with Maemo or MeeGo.

    "There has been a lot of great work done in the Meego project, and we are pleased to see that code carried over to Tizen." - Imad Sousa (Meego’s technical steering group co-leader)

    Its Samsung's internal Linux platform

    If by internal you mean it is maintained by the Linux Foundation then OK.

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