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."

Comments

For those of you like me who don't have a clue...

[apcullen]

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/

Re:For those of you like me who don't have a clue.

[evilviper]

WTF Tizen is...

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