Meego will will be merged out of existence. MeeGo will become Tizen. Tizen is a software platform and a mobile and device operating system based on Linux and other popular upstream projects. According to Intel, Tizen will build upon the strengths of both LiMo and MeeGo and Intel will work with MeeGo partners to help them move from MeeGo to Tizen.
The Tizen project is hosted at the Linux Foundation and offers an operating system and an HTML5 development environment within which applications can be produced to run on multiple types of hardware. The Tizen application programming interfaces are based on HTML5 and other web standards, and it is anticipates that the vast majority of Tizen application development will be based on these emerging standards. Tizen will provide a robust and flexible environment for application developers, based on HTML5 and Wholesale Applications Community (WAC). The Tizen SDK and API will allow developers to use HTML5 and related web technologies to write applications that run across multiple device segments, including smartphone, tablet, smart TV, in-vehicle infotainment, and netbook. So the application development is expect to shift from Meego/Qt now to Tizen/HTML5.
For those who use native code in their applications (small percentage of the applications), the Tizen SDK will include a native development kit.
Tizen sounds an awful lot like WebOS to me. Why do we need more Linux OS? Will this really replace the ones it is combining together or fragmenting the market more? The situation in mobile Linux field seems to be pretty similar to what happens at xkcd:Standards comic to standards.
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Tomi says:
HP to Contribute webOS to Open Source
http://www.hp.com/hpinfo/newsroom/press/2011/111209xa.html?mtxs=rss-corp-news
Tomi Engdahl says:
HP throws WebOS to open source community
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/09/hp_webos_open_source/
The company made the announcement, as expected, that it would no longer sell the software and instead will transfer the source code, along with the ENYO application framework for WebOS and the remaining components of the user space, to the community in the near future. HP said that it will continue to work on the code, but gave no details of what that support might entail.
tomi says:
Tizen, webOS, & the Future of Mobile Open Source
http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/12/12/2033227/tizen-webos-the-future-of-mobile-open-source
When HP announced it would release webOS as open source, it added a competitor to a narrow niche: there’s already Tizen, the descendant of MeeGo, which is, like webOS, an open source Linux-based operating system for smartphones. Can they co-exist, or will one come out on top?
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tizen Screenshots
http://mynokiablog.com/2012/01/09/tizen-screenshots/
See what Samsung has done to Tizen, which effectively seems to be to turn it into Android/touchwiz it up. It’s markedly different from the much for stylish Nokia N9 running MeeGo-Harmattan, aka Maemo 6 (was there ever actually a real MeeGo phone?).
As far as apps go on Tizen, Intel seems to want to focus on HTML5 apps.
Intel could have an agenda for HTML5 on Tizen/Meego. Because it’s definitely not as efficient as natively coded apps, it would require GHz which means good business for Intel.. Don’t quote me though, but this sounds like a hidden agenda if u ask me.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Samsung Merging Its Bada OS With Intel-Backed Tizen Project
http://www.forbes.com/sites/elizabethwoyke/2012/01/13/samsung-merging-its-bada-os-with-intel-backed-tizen-project/
“We have an effort that will merge bada and Tizen,” said Tae-Jin Kang, Senior Vice President of Samsung’s Contents Planning Team in an interview at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). Kang said he didn’t know when the work would be complete but that it was already underway.
When the integration is finished, Tizen will support mobile applications written with bada’s SDK (software development kit). That support will include backwards compatibility for previously published bada apps.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tizen Gets Boost From Bada Merger
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/12/01/17/1858225/tizen-gets-boost-from-bada-merger
“As predicted last September, Samsung has announced plans to merge Tizen with its own Bada platform to create a new mobile OS that will fit well on low- and high-end smartphones. Last year, Bada had more global phone deployments than Windows Phone 7. The merger means each Linux-based platform will have access to more native- and HTML5-based apps.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
http://www.tietokone.fi/uutiset/hp_kaksinkertaistaa_tuotekehitysrahat
WebOS lives on?
Whitman also brightened his speech WebOS operating system, around-running rumors. “We believe that the market requires a different operating system, and it is still space. I urge to look into the future and wait for two or three years. We may then see something completely new, “said Whitman.
Tomi Engdahl says:
HP CEO: Google-Motorola deal could close-source Android
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9224291/HP_CEO_Google_Motorola_deal_could_close_source_Android
HP CEO Meg Whitman said a closed-source Android and iOS could create a big opportunity for webOS in the long run
“The industry needs another OS,” Whitman said, contending that Android might not remain open source.
Tomi Engdahl says:
http://www.digitoday.fi/mobiili/2012/02/28/tizen-leiri-sai-uuden-tukijan/201224122/66?rss=6
Tizen-camp gained a new supporter
The Chinese equipment manufacturer Huawei has joined the developed Tizen Meegon successor operating system to supporters.
In addition support group for Intel’s Tizen includes Samsung, NTT DoCoMo, and Panasonic.
Tizen source code is now available in Release Candidate extends.
Programming Tools support is available for Windows and Ubuntu.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tizen Reaches 1.0
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/05/01/1948255/tizen-reaches-10
Tizen, Intel’s post-MeeGo mobile OS, announced the availability of their first stable release.
The Web capabilities have now got full W3C/HTML5 specification support with ‘key’ WebRTC features incorporated and APIs to access the local camera and vibration. …
Tizen’s graphics are based on X11 with a compositing window manager based on Enlightenment Foundation Libraries …
The SDK’s IDE includes a new browser based tool which offers support for the Tizen APIs within a browser; this should allow developers to run and debug Tizen ‘web applications’ and see how those applications run with various device profiles.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Intel and Samsung intend to import the first Tizen operating system-based mobile devices for sale later this year.
The operating system of the first production version is expected in June.
Tizen is Samsung, and Intel’s Linux-based operating system that is based on the companies, LiMo and MeeGo operating systems.
Tizenin success would be embarrassing to Nokia of Finland, who gave up their own Linux-based operating system development.
Source:
http://www.tietokone.fi/uutiset/tizen_laitteet_kauppoihin_loppuvuonna
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tizen-based devices to appear in 2H12
http://www.digitimes.com/news/a20120521PD211.html
Intel and Samsung Electronics’ co-developed operating system Tizen is expected to be released in late June with Tizen-based devices such as smartphones, netbooks and in-vehicle infotainment to appear in the second half of 2012, according to sources from PC players.
Taiwan-based players including Acer, Asustek Computer and High Tech Computer (HTC) are reportedly also supporting the Tizen project with HTC already planning Tizen-based products.
Asustek and Acer are also set to launch Tizen-based netbooks before the end of the third quarter to test the water, and are mainly targeting emerging markets.
Tomi Engdahl says:
HP open sources WebOS TouchPad tablet GUI
http://www.reghardware.com/2012/06/27/hp_open_sources_webos_touchpad_tablet_gui/
HP has released the first part of WebOS Community Edition (WOCE), the latest incarnation of the one-time Palm operating system.
“Developers can now modify the card view, launcher, notifications, Just Type and more,” it said.
Past WebOS open source releases have provided only the code for many of the operating system’s underlying components.
WOCE is geared toward ensuring the longer term viability of the TouchPad.
Tomi says:
Ex-Nokia staff to build MeeGo-based smartphones
http://www.theverge.com/2012/7/7/3143099/jolla-meego-startup-ex-nokia-employees
A group of ex-Nokia staff and MeeGo enthusiasts has formed Jolla (Finnish for “dinghy”), a mobile startup with the aim of bringing new MeeGo devices to the market. According to its LinkedIn page, Jolla consists of “directors and core professionals from Nokia’s MeeGo N9 organization, together with some of the best minds working on MeeGo in the communities.”
Together with international investors and partners, Jolla Ltd. will design, develop and sell new MeeGo based smartphones.
Tomi says:
Can Jolla Become MeeGo’s Saviour? CEO Plans Two Smartphones Already
http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/10/can-jolla-become-meegos-saviour-ceo-plans-two-smartphones-already/
Last week Nokia released a major software upgrade for the N9, but it’s probably the last upgrade we’ll see. Even then, few people even saw a MeeGo-powered N9, basically the shell of what became the Lumia 800 and 900 devices. So what of the poor neglected MeeGo, the platform that barely existed?
Well, Jolla Mobile – a company without even a website yet – hopes to be its resurrection. In the last couple of days it’s emerged that much of the team inside Nokia’s MeeGo’s development has left to created actual new smartphones based for the platform. A spokesperson has categorically denied to TechCrunch that olla Mobile will get any Intellectual Property Rights from Nokia to achieve this, but, according to the CEO, we will see two – count ‘em – two MeeGo phones appear this year. They are even thinking about entirely new products based on MeeGo.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tizmee – Tizen Applications to run on the Nokia N9/N950
http://www.tizenexperts.com/2012/07/tizmee-tizen-applications-run-nokia-n9n950/
TizenMee is a new project that developer Mike Sheldon is currently working on and it is designed to be able to make Tizen Applications run on MeeGo Harmattan (Nokia N9 / N950) using the Tizen API.
This is interesting work as Tizen is not properly off the ground yet and already Tizen applications are having the ability of running on other Platforms.
Tomi Engdahl says:
No more bada and TIZEN in 2012
http://www.sammobile.com/2012/08/22/no-more-bada-and-tizen-in-2012/
Samsung will not bring any kind of new Bada phones in the second half of 2012.
Another sad thing is Samsung moved their first TIZEN OS devices to 2013. Samsung already gave away some developers devices with TIZEN 1.0.
The only problem is the support from TIZEN itself. Which is very bad, developers are blaming for missing tools and software upgrades.
Tomi Engdahl says:
The dead reanimates as HP ships Open webOS beta
Meg’s boys are also hiring webOS developers. Curious…
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/08/31/hp_ships_open_webos_beta/
As promised, HP has shipped the beta release of Open webOS, the open source version of the web standards–based webOS mobile platform that was the last hurrah of the former Palm before HP absorbed it in 2010. More surprisingly, however, HP actually seems to be staffing up its webOS development team – an odd reversal of recent trends.
HP first detailed its schedule for the ambitious open source project in January, and so far it has managed to hit each milestone. With the beta version arriving on schedule, it seems reasonable to expect that Open webOS 1.0 will ship in September as planned.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Coming To A Car Near You: Linux Goes Automotive, Signs Up Harman, Intel, Toyota, Samsung’s Tizen, More
http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/19/coming-to-a-car-near-you-linux-goes-automotive-signs-up-harman-intel-toyota-samsungs-tizen-and-more/
Today, the Linux Foundation announced that it was throwing its hat into the car-apps ring, with the creation of the Automotive Grade Linux Workgroup. Early sign-ups among car companies include Jaguar Land Rover, Nissan and Toyota. Tech companies include Harman, Intel, NEC, NVIDIA, Samsung, and Texas Instruments, along with Tizen, the Linux-based platform backed by Samsung and Intel.
The Linux Foundation is not exactly an early mover here. We’ve already seen “car of the future” odes from the likes of Ford and Honda – not to mention Google — even some suggestions that Apple is working on concepts, too.
Members of the group will work together on Linux-based standards for devices and subsequent services to run on them, with some early emphasis on apps for in-vehicle infotainment and “instrumentation cluster” (the technical term for all the different gauges you use to monitor speed, distance, water levels and more; car diagnostics).
“Carmakers can use Linux and open source technologies to accelerate innovation,” the group notes it in its release, pointing out that some $10 billion has already been invested in the platform to date.
Interestingly, Tizen, the Linux-based OS spearheaded by Samsung and Intel about a year ago, is also making an appearance here. Tizen will be working with this new automotive workgroup to create a bridge for apps to work across the two.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Linux-based Tizen mobile platform LIVES!
Samsung could soon ship actual phone
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/09/27/tizen_2_os_release/
The Linux Foundation has released the source code and SDKs for the first alpha version of Tizen 2.0, its Linux-based smartphone OS
You could be forgiven for assuming Tizen was dead in the water – if you’ve heard of it at all. It’s a combination of Nokia’s Maemo, Intel’s Moblin, and the two companies’ joint MeeGo project, none of which enjoyed any market success.
But rumors abound that Samsung has been sniffing around Tizen as a possible alternative to Android.
Then earlier this month, the Wi-Fi Alliance published a document certifying that a Samsung handset named the “GT-i9300_TIZEN” had passed its interoperability tests.* GT-i9300 is Samsung’s internal model number for the Galaxy S III
The alpha release of Tizen 2.0 is perhaps the firmest evidence yet that there is still life in the Linux-based platform
Of course, Tizen isn’t the only Linux-based mobile OS
Tomi Engdahl says:
This year, Samsung may be seen as new phones that work in Tizen successor operating system.
According to Bloomberg, Samsung has confirmed that the new Tizen phones can expect a number of songs from this year. It is not yet clear how markets in the new handsets will be. Certainly, at least in Japan is on the list.
In time, Samsung was a founding Tizen operating alliance with Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo, Intel and Vodafone.
Source: http://www.iltalehti.fi/digi/2013010416517349_du.shtml
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Samsung finally folding Bada OS into Tizen
http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/25/4026848/bada-and-tizen-to-merge
Samsung has announced plans to kill off its Bada operating system and merge it with Tizen, the open source project formed from the ashes of Nokia and Intel’s MeeGo.
Tizen phones will be able to run apps designed for Bada devices, but it won’t be possible to upgrade a Bada phone to Tizen.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Momentum grows for alternative phone system Tizen
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_TEC_WIRELESS_SHOW_TIZEN?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2013-02-26-17-24-19
Phones from yet another contender – Tizen – will go on sale this year with a view to eventually competing with the industry leaders, Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android.
For now, Tizen will compete with another newcomer, Firefox OS, as well as Microsoft’s Windows Phone and a revamped BlackBerry operating system.
Most of the impetus behind Tizen comes from cellphone carriers, which want a successful counterweight to the clout of Google and Apple.
Tizen has a powerful backer in Samsung Electronics Co. Spokesman Michael Lin confirmed Tuesday that the Korean company is ditching its own, homebrew operating system Bada in favor of Tizen. Samsung will also continue to make Android phones.
Both Firefox and Tizen are “open source” projects, managed by nonprofit associations. That means the software is freely available to customize, giving phone carriers control over how the software works on the phones they sell.
The idea to create an “open” phone operating system is not new. In fact, Android is an open-source project run by Google. However, one controlled by a nonprofit has never been successful. Tizen is based on two failed attempts, MeeGo and LiMo.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tizen-based Samsung phone leaks online
http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/tizen-based-samsung-phone-leaks-online-371910
After integrating its Bada OS into Tizen, Samsung has been in the works for creating significant devices for the OS for a while now. After its long lived commitment to Google, it might now finally be concentrating on the Tizen operating system based on Linux.
Tizen Greek Community recently leaked images of the GT-i8800 codenamed Redwood, a new smartphone running the Tizen version 2.1.0.
The device looks similar to existing Android phones from Samsung like the Samsung Galaxy S2.
The smartphone will be given to around 500 developers participating in the on-going Tizen Developer Conference in San Francisco.
The conference also saw the announcement of the Tizen Application Store. Labeled the ‘Tizen Store’, the application UI is majorly based around sliding gestures and featured segmentation
Tomi Engdahl says:
World’s First Tizen Tablet
http://linux.slashdot.org/story/13/06/27/2225257/worlds-first-tizen-tablet
“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.”
“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.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
World’s first Tizen tablet?
http://linuxgizmos.com/japanese-company-announces-first-tizen-tablet/
Japanese firm Systena Corp. announced the first Tizen-based tablet, which also appears to be 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, and a 10.1-inch, 1920 x 1200-pixel display.
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.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Samsung co-CEO: We want Tizen to be on everything
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57597026-94/samsung-co-ceo-we-want-tizen-to-be-on-everything/
In an interview with CNET Korea, Samsung’s J.K. Shin talks about the opportunity for the upstart operating system to run on everything from smartphones to cars.
Samsung Electronics has broad ambitions for Tizen, an open operating system the company has taken a lead role in developing as it looks to wean itself off its dependence on Android and Google.
That’s according to Samsung Electronics co-CEO J.K. Shin, who runs the company’s IT and mobile communications division.
Tizen is important because it represents Samsung’s best attempt to push an operating system that it has more control over. Samsung’s surge to dominance over the smartphone market has been driven by its Galaxy S line of smartphones, which all run on Google’s Android software. While Samsung continues to say all the right things about its partner, it’s clear the Korean conglomerate would prefer to rely less on Google and more on home-grown software.
Shin brushed aside rumors that Samsung would drop Tizen, and maintained that the company considers it a key operating system alongside Android and Microsoft’s Windows Phone platform.
Beyond smartphones, Tizen could find its way into vehicles. Shin mentioned cars as one area where Samsung would like to be in, and partner Intel sounds similarly confident in the software’s ability to power in-car apps and systems. A person familiar with Intel’s work with Tizen said the operating system is well-suited to the auto industry’s need for differentiation. But the person said Tizen wouldn’t make its way to cars until 2015.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Samsung hired Finnish Tizen work
The Korean Samsung’s smartphones have a hint of Finnish work.
The world’s largest mobile phone manufacturer, technology giant Samsung Electronics, opened in Otaniemi, Espoo research and development unit. Samsung’s R & D Institute to develop smartphones, tablets, and televisions.
River Aho, the point of recruitment is the fact that the Samsung phones and tablets to use open source. Finnish unit involved, especially the Tizen project. Tizen is an open source Linux-based mobile operating system, Samsung is planning to use in addition to tablet computers, smart phones, and even if älytelevisioissa car entertainment systems.
“Open source is a Finnish software engineer in the heart,” says cm In.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/samsung+pestasi+suomalaisia+tizentoihin/a922524
Tomi Engdahl says:
Chances for a Tizen Smartphone Entry
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/chances-tizen-smartphone-entry
Tizen is a fresh new project, but it has roots in several pre-existing platforms including the distributions Moblin, MeeGo and LiMo. According to the Tizen Association, “The mobile marketplace has undergone extensive change over the past few years. New platforms have emerged, new revenue models have been enabled, and innovations continue to emerge rapidly from all corners of the industry. Tizen is an open-source solution that provides an innovative platform offering a high level of flexibility in service selection and deployment.”
Tomi Engdahl says:
HERE and Tizen Deal Opens the Door for HERE at Samsung
http://blogs.strategyanalytics.com/WMS/post/2013/11/11/HERE-and-Tizen-Deal-Opens-the-Door-for-HERE-at-Samsung-.aspx
As I have always asserted, HERE would become a more attractive partner to a wide range of device vendors and service providers, once separated from Nokia’s devices business. Not surprisingly, rival device vendors to Nokia have been less enthusiastic to leverage HERE maps while Nokia received preferential treatment and access to mapping capability. During 2013 HERE has continued to execute its strategy to broaden its presence across all handset OS platforms, automotive manufacturers and enterprises. However, while HERE created a free HERE pedestrian map application for iOS, a HERE SDK for Android, and a web version of HERE maps for Firefox, these initiatives have been met with little success. To date Amazon is the only Android OEM to have leveraged the HERE SDK on Android phones or tablets.
Although Tizen’s market share of global and regional smartphone sales will remain in the single digit range by 2017, supporting this emerging platform provides increased exposure to HERE’s APIs. HERE will likely benefit from the agreement from licensing revenue and potentially other business models that may have been agreed.
If the new Nokia can make the Tizen deal into a foot in the door for HERE at Samsung and succeed in open the door to the whole Samsung portfolio (Android and Windows Phone), this could be massive – in terms of boosting the ubiquity of HERE map services in the mobile arena. It would not only be a game changer for the new Nokia, it could also be a game changer for Android, if Samsung swaps Google Maps for HERE.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tieto to begin to develop Tizen
Big Finnish IT company Tieto is associated in a Tizen Association Partner program and will take the time to develop Tizen operating system.
Open-source Tizeniä have developed, as well as the Samsung chip giant Intel.
Membership of the program data has the opportunity to participate in the Tizen community groups and get more information about the operating system, as well as contribute to its development.
“Tieto is committed to accelerate the introduction of the platform,” says the company release.
Samsung has previously told envision Tizen as “simple option for Android.”
Among other things, the market research firm ABI Research predicted Tizen to emerging world’s fifth most popular mobile operating system in five years.
Source: http://www.tietoviikko.fi/kaikki_uutiset/tieto+alkaa+kehittaa+tizenia/a953667
Mobile trends for 2014 « Tomi Engdahl’s ePanorama blog says:
[...] OS phone. Canonical will try to get their Ubuntu phone released. Samsung is starting to make Tizen powered smart phones and NTT DoCoMo could be the first carrier to offer a Tizen powered device. [...]
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tizen: We have ignition! Smartmobes will come to fruition in spring – reports
This time they really will … honest
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/01/09/tizen_os_mobile_devices_coming_spring/
Smartphones based on the long-awaited Tizen operating system will finally be unveiled in the next couple of months, according to new reports
NTT Docomo spokesman Jun Otori confirmed separately to AFP that Tizen smartphones would be available from the end of March.
Launched by the Linux Foundation in 2011, the project has been slow to gain momentum despite the backing of Samsung, Huawei, Fujitsu and Intel on the hardware side and operators including NTT, Vodafone and Orange.
Samsung claimed around a year ago that it would have a device out by the end of 2013, for example, but that never materialised.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Samsung: Don’t hold your breath for a Tizen phone in the U.S.
January 9, 2014 | By Phil Goldstein
http://www.fiercewireless.com/story/samsung-dont-hold-your-breath-tizen-phone-us/2014-01-09
Samsung Electronics is unlikely to bring its first phones running the Tizen operating system to the U.S. market, according to a U.S.-based Samsung executive.
“We don’t feel the U.S. is a great test market for those kinds of products,” he said, noting that Samsung will likely roll out Linux-based Tizen phones in other regions of the world. “The U.S. market is pretty mature. Bringing a new entrant here that doesn’t meet a certain performance bar would be a challenge. Recognizing that, we don’t want to set ourselves up for failure.”
Samsung is the largest backer of the Tizen Association, an open-source group that was created through the merger of the former MeeGo and LiMo platforms. Other Tizen supporters include Sprint, Intel, Huawei, Orange and Vodafone.
Samsung has positioned Tizen as one of its many platform options, but analysts have consistently said Samsung could be using Tizen as a hedge against Google’s Android, which is Samsung’s bread and butter for smartphones and tablets.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Japan’s NTT DoCoMo Shelves Plan to Launch Tizen Phone
Carrier Says Smartphone Market Not Growing Fast Enough for a Third Operating System
http://online.wsj.com/news/article_email/SB10001424052702304419104579325551303211522-lMyQjAxMTA0MDEwNjExNDYyWj
NTT DoCoMo Inc. DCM +0.67% has shelved indefinitely plans for a March launch of a smartphone featuring a new operating system called Tizen, dealing a blow to one of the platform’s key backers— Samsung Electronics Co. 005930.SE -0.69%
Japan’s largest mobile carrier said Friday that the smartphone market in Japan wasn’t growing fast enough for it to support a third mobile operating system, a reference to Apple Inc. AAPL -0.56% ’s iOS operating system and Google Inc. GOOG +0.66% ’s Android, which powers the majority of Samsung’s devices. In explaining its decision, DoCoMo cited research by IDC Japan showing the country’s overall smartphone market grew only 2.2% in the April-to-September period from a year earlier.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Samsung’s first Tizen phone shows off Galaxy style in leaked snap
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/samsungs-first-tizen-phone-shows-off-galaxy-style-in-leaked-snap-50013306/
Is this the phone to tempt you away from Android? Say hello to the first Tizen phone, the Samsung ZEQ9000 — also said to be known as the Zeke — which mixes a hint of Galaxy, a dash of Android and a soupçon of Windows Phone.
Although it’s set to be the first phone showing off the new operating system backed by Samsung and Intel, it’s also suspiciously familiar-looking.
Can Tizen compete with Android, or is Samsung stuck with Google’s software?
Tomi Engdahl says:
Open source OS Tizen gains 15 more allies; Sprint rejoins the list
http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/13/tizen-association-sprint-baidu-softbank/
In the world of mobile platforms, Tizen’s but a new entry that’s been through some tough times since its inception. The circle of 36 companies (aptly called the Tizen Association) backing up the open source OS is putting up a good fight, though — it even just welcomed 15 new members to its number.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Tizen teasing continues as new members join but none pledge devices
What if the Linux Foundation made an operating system and nobody ran it?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/14/tizen_teasing_continues_as_new_members_join_but_none_pledge_devices/
Tizen, the mobile operating system driven by the Linux Foundation, has added 15 new members including Chinese smartphone maker ZTE and Japanese operator Softbank Mobile.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Samsung’s updated smartwatch to shun Android
http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2014/02/18/samsung-gear-smartwatch-tizen-android/5583023/
The new version of Samsung’s Gear smartwatch will run on Tizen, not Google’s Android operating system, the latest attempt by the South Korean electronics giant to develop more of its own software and services, according to three people familiar with the situation.
Samsung will unveil the updated Gear watch, and a new HTML5 version of the Tizen operating system, at an event at the Mobile World Congress later this month in Barcelona, the people said.
“Samsung is trying to protect its own long-term interests, not fortifying Google’s Android camp while building their own camp around Tizen,”
Tomi Engdahl says:
Samsung Gear 2 smartwatches coming in April with Tizen OS and better battery life
http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/22/samsung-gear-2/
The absence of Galaxy branding is no typo, by the way; the new Gear will run on the Tizen operating system, a platform which Samsung has been investing large amounts of money and resources into.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Samsung Is Working On A New Smartphone Operating System That It Hopes Will End Android
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/tizen-2014-2#ixzz2uQPhdsBc
Tomi Engdahl says:
Hands-on with Samsung’s Tizen OS: An impressively capable Android clone
Samsung’s Android backup OS is surprisingly viable. The big problem is apps.
http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2014/02/hands-on-with-samsungs-tizen-os-a-impressively-capable-android-clone/
a small booth tucked away in the last hall of MWC: a Tizen booth
Here, in the “App Planet” section of Mobile World Congress, Samsung has actual Tizen phones on display—phones with an OS that is fully under Samsung’s control.
The OS runs on “prototype” hardware that very closely resembles a Galaxy S4. Tizen is a Linux-based OS primarily developed by Samsung, and, the theory goes, Samsung’s grand plot is to eventually turn Tizen into a drop-in Android replacement, own the market with an OS of its own making, and never have to deal with Google again.
Samsung has done such a good job of replicating the Android interface that there is very little to write about—everything looks and works similarly to the way it does on Android, just without any kind of ecosystem.
Tizen uses the same button configuration as many Android Samsung phones, with Menu, Home, and Back buttons. Samsung’s OS runs really, really well
The interface isn’t everything—we still have no idea what developers think of Tizen’s development toolset versus Android’s. We were told that development could be done with either native C++ or HTML5 apps, so it doesn’t sound like expertise building Android apps in Java will translate to Tizen. There are third parties offering Android app support on Tizen, but Samsung wasn’t demoing that.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Blink once to turn right: Samsung asks software dev Teleca to talk Tizen
Because the world really needs another OS
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/02/27/teleca_puts_a_tizen_in_your_tank/
Teleca head of mobile and media biz, Andrew Till, explains that this has led to a lot of development work on Tizen apps – and the lack of any phones at MWC does not mean they will not appear. Teleca’s Tizen work doesn’t stop at phones though.
It is doing quite a bit of work for Intel’s automotive division and you can expect to see Tizen driving cars for the model years of 2015 or 2016.
The car industry is keen to see closer integration between phones and cars, but Tizen rather than Android is the car OS of choice because until recently Google had no clearly defined automotive strategy. The incumbent car OS, pen-source Genivi, is moving too slowly. Till expects Hyundai to lead the charge on launching cars with Tizen.
Till also sees a place for Tizen in wearables, and this is an area where Teleca sees growth – maybe not just with Tizen.
Tomi Engdahl says:
Hands-on with Samsung’s vastly improved Tizen OS
http://www.engadget.com/2014/02/27/samsung-tizen-os-prototype/
Samsung’s device lineup may still be heavily dominated by Android, but change is in the air. Tizen, the open-source OS it jointly develops with Intel, powers the company’s three new Gear wearables, and smartphones are coming later this year. We got the chance to play with Samsung’s latest Tizen phone prototype
Tomi Engdahl says:
Samsung executive says Galaxy S5 to outsell S4, sees second quarter rollout for Tizen phone
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/04/16/us-samsung-elec-sales-idUSBREA3F09320140416
Tomi Engdahl says:
Samsung Tizen rest of world with mobe launch in Russia, India
Report suggests Sammy’s OS backup plan will get a Eurasian test launch
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/12/samsung_tizen_rest_of_world_with_mobe_launch_in_russia_india/
Samsung will reportedly launch a Tizen-powered smartphone in Russia and India.
The Wall Street Journal has chatted to its usual “people familiar with the matter” and reports that an all-singing, all-dancing launch event can be expected in early June in the two target nations. Lots of noise can also be expected at the Tizen Developer Conference in San Francisco, which kicks off on June 2 and runs until the 4th.
The Journal says the Tizen mobe launch event will be on a “global” scale, and as Vulture South has experienced that can mean lighting up the Sydney Opera house. Samsung probably wouldn’t bother to launch a cheap handset with that kind of bash and there’s no hint about the price of the of Tizen handset in either nation.
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Exclusive: Samsung Galaxy Gear Tizen Preview
http://www.sammobile.com/2014/05/14/exclusive-samsung-galaxy-gear-tizen-preview/
Luckily, we have got our hands on a recent Tizen test build for the Galaxy Gear, but due to the software being in early stages we are not able to leak it, so we decided to give you folks a preview instead.
The new Tizen upgrade brings in a ton of new features and functionality to the Samsung Galaxy Gear.
At the moment, we are not sure when Samsung will officially start rolling out the Tizen upgrade for the Galaxy Gear but we will keep you folks in the loop and let you know whenever we receive more information.
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The Samsung Z is the world’s first Tizen smartphone, will go on sale in Russia in Q3 2014
http://thenextweb.com/gadgets/2014/06/02/the-samsung-z-is-the-worlds-first-tizen-smartphone-will-go-on-sale-in-russia-in-q3-2014/
Samsung has finally announced the world’s first Tizen smartphone, the Samsung Z. It will be available in Russia in the third quarter of this year, and Samsung says there are plans to expand it to other markets.
Samsung also touts its Tizen smartphone as offering a faster startup time and more efficient multi-tasking capabilities
The Samsung Z will no doubt help to boost the Tizen operating system though. Samsung already has Tizen-based devices in the market, after it used the operating system for its smartwatches — the Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo – and just announced plans to introduce a Tizen-based SDK for smart TV products next month
Tomi Engdahl says:
Not just for phones: Samsung shows Tizen-powered TV, cameras
http://www.cnet.com/news/not-just-for-phones-samsung-shows-tizen-powered-tv-cameras/
Company has been pushing the open-source OS — an Android alternative — in everything from wearables to TVs.
The Korean electronics company, which earlier this week unveiled a new smartphone running the open-source operating system, on Tuesday showed off Tizen-based TVs, cameras, and wearables — some of these devices for the first time. The gadgets, displayed at the Tizen Developer Conference in San Francisco, all are part of Samsung’s efforts to create a broad ecosystem for Tizen, its alternative to Android.
Samsung and partner Intel are hosting a conference this week to boost developer support for Tizen. Though Tizen is an open operating system, Samsung and Intel have spearheaded the development of the standards behind it. Tizen has been mentioned most often in the context of smartphones, but Samsung has vowed to release the software in everything from cars to smartwatches.
“Cross-convergence is the one [area] Samsung can do best, since we do have various parts and finished products,”
Samsung co-CEO BK Yoon last year said Tizen-powered TVs likely would hit the market in 2014.