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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 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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    2. Re:Bada by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

      Will it succeed? Don't think so.

      The guy writing the article is certain it'll fail. He keeps saying its like WP8.

    3. 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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    4. Re:Bada by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      (Posting AC because I'm at work and I don't log into websites from work not because I'm unwilling to put my name behind my post.)

      That is simply one of the most moronic things I've read on Slashdot in quite some time.

      Or, to put it in a car analogy so you understand why I think you're utterly daft, please ask yourself which auto manufacturers make the high end cars that don't care about competing on price and which manufacturers are primarily interested in being just a bit cheaper than their competitors.

      To put it simply, some manufacturers are offering the same grapple grommet as the next guy so the only way to compete is via price while other manufacturers are offering a lot more and are targeting a more affluent market and thus don't compete on price. American vs non-American has absolutely NOTHING to do with that equation.

      And, no, I'm not American so this has nothing to do with defending "my" national pride. This is simply me calling out a moron for a moronic comment.

  2. 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.

  3. Competition is always good by rodrigoandrade · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Yes, I think Tizen will ultimately flop for a variety of reasons, not the least of which being the fact that Samsung will need to support THREE different operating systems.

    But in the end, competition is always good for consumers. Bring it on!!

  4. I love Samsung's smartphones, but... by Zaatxe · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ...if they ditch Android, I'll ditch Samsung.

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    1. Re:I love Samsung's smartphones, but... by q.kontinuum · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Actually, Tizen might be a reason for me to give them a shot. Unless I get a budget-friendly device with Sailfish OS first :-)

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

    with a butt-ugly interface.

    No sir, I don't like it.

  6. 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.

  7. Re:Samsung and Google by Custard+Horse · · Score: 4, Funny

    Didn't they just sign some agreement a few days ago? And now Samsung is gonna stab Google in the back. Grab your popcorn and place your bets!

    They're keeping patent law alive. Not content with being sued by Apple, they will now be sued by microsoft - presumably as their 'tiles' are 'too square'.

  8. 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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  9. 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.

  10. Perhaps they can pull this off... by Simulant · · Score: 3, Insightful

    ...but only if they can release OS updates for 1-2 years after a phone's release.

    My experience with Samsung, (my first 3 android phones were Samsung), is that they tend to ship and forget. They showed no loyalty to me and so I never developed any loyalty to them. I think they got where they are by market saturation rather than any real, inherent superiority of their products.

  11. I'm not holding my breath for this! by morgauxo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I had a Samsung Stratosphere. It ran like shit!!!!
    Then I got an SIII. It worked for about a week.
    Now I have a Motorola phone. Ah.... Much better!

    If Samsung can't even make Android, which someone else has already done most of the coding for run well how are they going to make their own OS?!?!