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World's First Tizen Tablet
DeviceGuru writes "Japanese firm Systena Corp. has announced what appears to be the world's first Tizen-based tablet, and the first Tizen product of any kind. The unnamed Systena Tizen tablet offers high-end features including a 1.4GHz, quad-core Cortex-A9 system-on-chip, 2GB of RAM, 32GB of flash, a 10.1-inch 1920 x 1200-pixel display, 2-megapixel rear-facing and 0.3-megapixel front-facing cameras, and a microSD slot — specs that approach those of the most powerful Android tablets currently on the market. Japanese carrier and major Tizen backer NTT DoCoMo will sell the device, according to a report by TizenExperts. Last month at the Tizen Developers Conference, NTT DoCoMo and Orange promised Tizen smartphone launches in 2013, presumably using upcoming Samsung Tizen phones, but mentioned nothing about tablets."
WTF Tizen is...
Basically, Tizen is a cross-architecture, open source software platform based on a comprehensive standards-based HTML5 implementation that was designed to support multiple device segments, including the smartphone, tablet, smart TV, netbook, and in-vehicle infotainment (IVI) markets.
Pasted wholesale from
http://linuxgizmos.com/tizen-android-game-changer/
That was my first thought?
Look up at Japan! It's an OS! It's a CPU! I don't know what the fuck it is! Tizen!
The answer is define run.
Tizen is Linux based. So same kernel as Android and Ubuntu. If you can unlock the bootloader most likely no reason why a Ubuntu firmware could not be installed.
Tizen at this stage does not have virtual machines like Android does that allow Ubuntu to run inside Android. Again you can expect those to come as the platform Applications mature. But since Tizen can run Android applications yes its possible to run Ubuntu inside.
Result is an answer somewhere between yes and maybe depending on what you mean by run..
The only thing your copy/pasted explanation says, is that it's an open source OS, which seems like it should be obvious from the context.
A much better explanation is that Tizen is the bastard offspring of MeeGo (Intel/Nokia) and LiMo/SLP/Bada (Samsung).
If you'd really like to punish yourself, you can see the family tree, here:
https://github.com/kumadasu/tizen-history/blob/master/tizen-history.pdf
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...is available here: http://linuxgizmos.com/files/tizen-architecture.jpg
Its linux and webkit in a shotgun wedding designed by Intel and Samsung because Android was getting so big those players were getting scared.
It may see the light of day in commercial deployment, but I suspect it is really just hanging around for Samsung to use as a threat if it doesn't get its way in dominating the Android Alliance.
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The Android brand is no longer important.
Best of luck with that.
Thank you for making up for Slashdot's lack.
What he said is true but it misses the main points. The main thing you need to know is that it's based on the Meego system that powered Nokia's last successful phone, the Nokia N9. Like most of the new systems coming in (FirefoxOS for example) there is no hope of it immediately catching up Android and iOS on apps. HTML5 is becoming the cross platform way to quickly get that range so that's what they always push.
Tizen is more than that; It's NTT DoCoMo's new main smartphone platform and since NTT DoCoMo is where much of mobile innovation starts that makes it important. As ever, the best analysis is he one from Tommi Ahonen. NTT DoCoMo was strongly into Symbian and pushing Tizen will be their revenge for it being killed.
Tizen can support QT apps so the same ones that will work on Sailfish and Blackberry can easily work here. Also Tizen seems to be source code compatible with Bada which has been very successful in the newer mobile phone markets.
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It removes some of the overhead of android and gives access to truckloads of applications that don't require much work to port (in comparison to other platforms).
Yep, that's it. Google's obsession with Java and crappy interpreters not to mention weirdo roll yer own application framework leaving out things like standard application exit is inexplicable.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
No it's not. Tizen is based on some parts LiMO and large parts Samsung's SLP combined with a general transition from DEB to RPM. It has nothing in common with the N9, which doesn't actually run MeeGo but what would be better called Maemo 6.
NTT DoCoMo are a laggard in mobile technology by most measures. The Galapagos phones that they touted in Japan were advanced for a while but they were all caught off guard by smartphones, particularly the iPhone. Now NTT, their parent company, they tend to be pretty innovative, but not in the mobile space.
The proper thing to say would be "Qt supports Tizen." Tizen itself will not include Qt libraries so any app that uses them will need to include them in their package or statically link.
When was Android last mentioned by Samsung? Their brand lies now with Galaxy, not Android. Samsung Galaxy is basically an industry synonym for Android (high-end) phone today. They likely intend to use this brand value to eventually ship Tizen phones as Galaxy phones, and if skinned with same UI and some Android compatibility layer for apps, nobody is missing Android.
What is a "standard application"?
Aren't they releasing stock Android versions of the S4? People do miss 'real' Android. The Samsung skin takes away far more value than it adds, in my opinion, and obviously many others as well.
A screen size I can live with. Someone in that company gets it.
When was Android last mentioned by Samsung? Their brand lies now with Galaxy, not Android. Samsung Galaxy is basically an industry synonym for Android (high-end) phone today. They likely intend to use this brand value to eventually ship Tizen phones as Galaxy phones, and if skinned with same UI and some Android compatibility layer for apps, nobody is missing Android.
dunno.. how about the last time they released an android phone.. like, last week.
and I have no doubt that you can quite easily find Samsung people who will say that all their phones will run Tizen in 2 years. I can tell you however that numbers walk and personal hopes talk. in 2006 Tampere, Finland you had no shortage of people saying that in 2008 maemo will be nokias main smartphone platform. so take it with a grain of salt and execs are not likely to mess with big seller lines. in other words the android experience with tizen has to be indistinguishable from android phone, including google play support - it might just as well be an android phone then.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.