Samsung reportedly launching Tizen-based phones on NTT DoCoMo in 2013
 

According to Japan's Daily Yomiuri, NTT DoCoMo is parterning with Samsung to develop phones running the open-source Tizen operating system, with the first handsets reaching the market next year. According to the Yomiuri, other mobile carriers are also getting behind the development of Tizen because they "fear the hegemony" of Apple and Google. We've heard about Tizen as far back as September of 2011 -- this Linux-based (and Intel-backed) software came about when Nokia's MeeGo OS bit the dust, and we've already seen evidence of a Tizen-based Galaxy S III.

http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/31/n...-tizen-phones/

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Looking forward to Tizen. Jolla seems to release somthing as well. Now it comes to execution. Sailfish and tizen are still in hiding, and so is their hardware price and any other relevant information. While they are hiding, I'm looking forward to CES and hopping for a Hugh Galaxy note III or a Hugh keyboard device.

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Given the state of Tizen at the moment, I can't say that I'm looking forward to this release any longer.

BB10, Jolla, Firefox OS are all higher on my list than Tizen.

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It may not be the full MeeGo experience we (well me anyway) wanted but at least there will be some more competition in the market again.

Good luck to them.

Update:
Samsung confirms multiple Tizen phone launches in 2013

Talk of Samsung building a Tizen phone for non-developers has existed almost since the platform got started, but the company was silent on any definitive plans throughout 2012. It's speaking up this year: Samsung has confirmed to Bloomberg BusinessWeek that there's multiple "competitive" Tizen devices in the pipeline for 2013. While the firm unsurprisingly won't say what's involved, it's willing to say that the lineup will grow "depending on market conditions" -- in other words, it's watching early sales like a hawk. Does this mean a Galaxy S III with Tizen? A refined version of the developer device we saw last spring? At this stage, it might not matter when just having a major smartphone maker onboard is big news for a fledgling platform.

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget....fcb56179fo.jpg

http://www.engadget.com/2013/01/03/s...nches-in-2013/

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That is certainly good news. That makes me wish for a great keyboard device! to many cool stuff poring out from vendors now.

+1 to ranbaxy for scanning the web for tactical device information.

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From the leaks I've seen samsung is turning tizen into touchwiz, just like bada. If this doesn't change I really don't care, yeah open sorce, but with that horrible gingerbread looking UI is not something to continue. They were an early look, but nothing interesting. I saw videos showing cool graphics, but they were cool graphics for the sake of it and not for function.

http://youtu.be/ios0Fjq3oDY
http://youtu.be/a1z0xRNvPTA

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And if you look around you in the mobile world. Has it ever been a problem to sell?

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Given than Ubuntu, BB10 and sailfish are going Qt/QML, and that Qt is no longer a Nokia thing, and Digia officially trying to get Qt on Android and iOS, the EFL choice for apps seems even more akward than at the time Tizen was created...
Well, html5 apps can still possibly be shared.

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Has anyone seen EFL mentioned in recent Tizen developer docs? All I see is HTML, HTML, HTML - which makes me care even less about it. (A pity in a way. The underlying system seems to be pretty powerful and shares a lot with standard desktop PCs.)

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I've already tired to follow this guide a few months ago but found that it is too outdated to use. Basically, the sbs links are dead as Tizen moved from sbs to OBS (but unlike the MeeGo OBS, they don't provide access to the main OBS instance for normal developers) so the guide is no longer usable.

From how I understand it, EFL is basically used to implement the backend for the HTML stuff & any native built-in apps. I think they also expect that vendors would also use EFL to implement any built-in native apps they need when customizing Tizen for their devices. But no word about actually supporting third party native (or even hybrid native-HTML) applications.

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No customer device. Very dissepointing :(

But I still think jolla and Tizen will be launched the same day.

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Tizen 3.0 running on Samsung Galaxy S4 shows up in Indonesia

Samsung may not be too serious about its own smartphone OS – Tizen, but it still continues the work on it.

Even without any commercial mobile devices, made by Samsung or others, Tizen is at version 2.0 right now, with Tizen 3 scheduled for release in early 2014. And it looks like the OS is going through some serious user interface changes.

Today Tizen Indonesia got their hands on Samsung Galaxy S4 running version 3.0 of the OS.

http://www.unwiredview.com/wp-conten.../Tizen-3-1.jpg
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Samsung was supposed to launch the first Tizen device this spring, then delayed it until August, and then again postponed the launch to the end of the year. Whether we’ll see it then, or will have to wait until Tizen 3.0 is ready to ship, is anybody’s guess.

For now Tizen is an experiment, a consumer software training ground, and a sort of insurance policy for Samsung now, that both Google and Microsoft are smartphone OEMs too. Even when the first Tizen smartphones ship, they will be very low volume niche devices, and do not expect Samsung to do any serious marketing push for it. Sammy is doing too well with their Galaxy Android phones and will not risk derailing that.

However, Tizen is not only meant to run smartphones, and a later push to smarten the rest of Samsung’s consumer electronics and mobile computing gadgets where Android is not doing to well, is likely.

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Tizen indonesia... with Ui written in Korean ?!

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Samsung Tizen-based TVs could hit market in 2014, CEO says

Boo-Keun Yoon, co-CEO of Samsung and head of the consumer electronics business, tells a German publication that the company is working on televisions running the open source operating system. :D

Samsung's Tizen operating system may debut in TVs as soon as next year, one of the company's CEOs said in an interview with a German publication.


The Korean electronics company has been working on Tizen, an open-source software, as an alternative to Android. Tizen gives the company more control over its own future, allowing it to rely less on Google and more on its home-grown software. In TVs, Samsung already makes its own software. But as it tries to give devices more functionality and connect them together, that's easier to do with a common operating system.

"Tizen is going to be used on some of our smartphones just like on our TVs and on home appliances," Boo-Keun Yoon, co-CEO of Samsung and head of the consumer electronics business, told Die Welt. "This way we create an ecosystem in which we are able to connect all Samsung devices."

A Samsung spokesman told CNET that the company is "considering providing a TV based on Tizen OS, but detailed information including availability will be determined by market conditions."


While Tizen is an open operating system, Samsung and Intel have spearheaded the development of the standards behind it. Tizen enjoyed a splashy introduction at Mobile World Congress in February and has been slowly introducing new versions and rallying developer support.

However, the operating system hit a snag recently, with Samsung delaying the introduction of the first Tizen phone until the fourth quarter. The delay led to some speculation that Samsung's enthusiasm for the platform had waned, but the company has reiterated its plans to develop Tizen devices.

JK Shin, Samsung co-CEO and head of the company's mobile business, told CNET last month that the company wants Tizen to be on everything. Shin made it clear that Tizen is more than a pet project and "simple alternative for Android."

"There are many convergences not only among IT gadgets, including smartphones, tablets, PCs, and cameras, but also among different industries like cars, bio, or banks," he said. "Cross-convergence is the one [area] Samsung can do best since we do have various parts and finished products."

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Yup...Samsung is aiming to be the best game in town actually ...they just recently (2 months ago) bought the entire BOXEE BOX team (who notified all owners of a boxee box that they were dropping everything and moving to Samsung)...so support and further device development for that great device is through..... now that samsung has them...expect integration into Samsung smart tv and devices within the next bit that will completely devastate the competition...AppleTV ...LGSmartTV...ROKU...etc... now that the boxee box wizards have all the clout and resources of Samsung behind them