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Samsung's First Tizen Smartphone Gets Leaked

Posted by Soulskill on from the finally-arriving-to-market dept.

SmartAboutThings writes "We are less than a month away from seeing the first ever Tizen smartphone from Samsung. The leaked image points toward a Feb. 24th launch date at MWC 2014 in Barcelona. The phone design is very similar to Galaxy phones, while the UI reminds us of Windows Phone 8. Samsung is also one of the world's top smartphone vendors, so it should have a decent chance at developing a mobile OS of its own, don't you think?"

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  1. Bada by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Samsung already tried this with Bada ... and failed.
    Now they are taking others on board to try to displace Google. Will it succeed? Don't think so.

    1. Re:Bada by ThePhilips · · Score: 3, Informative

      By whom do you think the telecom developers are employed?

      Telecoms do lots of development and are involved in lots of connected things. There is no way around it.

      Anyway, I'd rather first wait for the Tizen phones to arrive and then evaluate them. Considering the race to bottom Google has choosen as a path forward for Android, Tizen might get a fair chance in the market. That, of course, if the Tizen would be even comparable to Android.

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  2. Nice phone by reboot246 · · Score: 4, Informative

    with a butt-ugly interface.

    No sir, I don't like it.

  3. markets by Tom · · Score: 3, Informative

    Samsung is also one of the world's top smartphone vendors, so it should have a decent chance at developing a mobile OS of its own, don't you think?

    No. These are two different markets and being a good hardware vendor doesn't mean you're a good OS developer. It worked for Apple, because they are neither - they are a design-focussed company.

    So Samsung or not makes no difference. Let's see what the product is like.

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  4. Tizen uses EFL by Niznaika · · Score: 3, Informative

    I see a lot of distrust of the Tizen interface, and even though I'm not a big fan of tiles, Samsung uses EFL as UI framework and has in it's payroll Carsten Haitzler (Rasterman) and Cedric Bail, the main developers of Enlightenment, which I think, grants that the end product will be quite good.

  5. Re:I love Samsung's smartphones, but... by Kryptonian+Jor-El · · Score: 4, Informative

    Android has multiple app stores, and actually has apps to fill them with. Your argument is invalid

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