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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. I don't think so by loufoque · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Being one of the top hardware vendors doesn't magically enable you to write good software.

    1. Re:I don't think so by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 5, Insightful

      It doesn't rule it out either...

      There's no general-case connection; but this is Samsung we are talking about here, so it's pretty safe to assume that anything they added will be about as classy as the bloatware on a Best Buy HP-Compaq at the bottom of the price range...

      If we are lucky, the BSP side might not be a total failure; but Samsung makes a hell of a mess when they try app development, at least on their android devices.

  2. Re:Bada by Stormwatch · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Wasn't Bada only used in low-end devices? This one seems to be rather high-end.

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  3. Re:Am I doing it wrong? by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Typing on a touch screen SUCKS, why do people buy these things?

    Space constraints. With a touchscreen, your typing sucks; but you recover all the keyboard space for viewing whenever you aren't typing. If you want a hard keyboard, you either chop the bottom third of the screen, or add nontrivial thickness and mechanical complexity for a folding or sliding keyboard.

    Damned if I can understand the freak kids who seem to enjoy typing with their thumbs on a featureless pane of glass; but it isn't really hard to see why screens larger than the classic blackberry layout allowed have taken over, given that using tiny screens is also pretty miserable.