Will Samsung ditch Android?
Posted by Kike, on Wed, 2 Jan 2013 2:21 GMT
Samsung has been under a lot of fire from Apple for the past few months, all mostly thanks to Google's Android OS. After all, Apple didn't seem to have any problems with Samsung before Sammy completely took over Android with the Galaxy Devices. Now that Sammy has been under heavy fire for a few months the Electronics Giant may finally have a plan to escape the fury of Apply: a whole new operating system called "Tizen".
Tizen is fairly new project, I was able to find documentation for it as early as January 2012. It's a little bit difficult to describe it, but basically it's a mobile OS, just like Android, also completely open source and based on the Linux Platform. Instead of being fully backed by Google it is nearly entirely backed by Samsung and Intel, two names that I love to see working together. I poked around the Internet a bit and found this on Tizen's website:
"Tizen is an open source, standards-based software platform supported by leading mobile operators, device manufacturers, and silicon suppliers for multiple device categories such as smartphones, tablets, netbooks, in-vehicle infotainment devices, and smart TVs. Tizen offers an innovative operating system, applications, and a user experience that consumers can take from device to device.
The Tizen project resides within the Linux Foundation and is governed by a Technical Steering Group. The Technical Steering Group is the primary decision-making body for the open source project, with a focus on platform development and delivery, along with the formation of working groups to support device verticals.
The Tizen Association has been formed to guide the industry role of Tizen, including gathering of requirements, identification and facilitation of service models, and overall industry marketing and education.
Tizen provides a robust and flexible environment for application developers, based on HTML5. With HTML5's robust capabilities and cross platform flexibility, it is rapidly becoming the preferred development environment for mobile apps and services. The Tizen SDK and API allow developers to use HTML5 and related web technologies to write applications that run across multiple device segments."
Also, check out the video below showing off a Tizen Dev Phone
Let's hope that Tizen will not share the same fate as MeeGo.
Nikosite