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A Different Kind of Linux Smartphone: Samsung To Sell Tizen-Based Model Z
As The Next Web reports, Samsung is finally bringing to market (in Russia, to start) a phone, the Samzung Z, running the Tizen OS. Like Android, Tizen is based on the Linux kernel, but it's intended for HTML5 apps rather than Android apps. It's not Samsung's first Tizen device, though; the second-generation of its Gear smart-watches are running Tizen as well. "Samsung earlier revealed plans for its first Tizen smartphones to be launched during its second quarter of business in 2014, which runs April to July, so it seems like smartphones other than Samsung Z could still be on their way. The Samsung executive said that Tizen devices could account for as much as 15 percent of Samsung’s mobile shipments per year, but Android will still be its main business."
Buy an iPhone, the thing they are copying
It's got an HTML5 userland, so you know the apps will be TOP NOTCH.
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
The Hurd-based GNUphone looks like a brick, feels like a brick, and is a brick. Sure you can talk into it, and everyone can call you on it, but they only call you crazy.
Java is one of the main obstacles in the development of efficient applications. Between the blatant lie of the code portability, the huge system requirements, and the lousy pre-baked code pieces every single developer is using it's only a matter of time before it causes the collapse of our civilization.
Mark my words, some time in the near future all the Java-based appliances/phones/computers/blu-ray players, etc will get together and become Skynet. And in a shorter time lapse we will have hordes of T-1000s hunting us down the streets.
Where Bada went wrong is that they made a custom search with Google, creating Bada-Google. If they went with Microsoft, they would have had Bada-Bing