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Samsung focuses on Tizen

by on03 August 2015


OS has legs

Samsung might be gearing up to push its home grown operating system which sounds like a sneeze.

Tizen was launched in 2012 and appears to be slower than an asthmatic ant with a heavy load of shopping at starting off.

The Samsung Z1 Tizen-powered smartphone has also sold over 1 million units which is not bad but it seems that Samsung has bigger plans for Tizen.

The Linux-based operating system also powers smartwatches, cars, TVs, and refrigerators, among other devices and it might be part of Samsung's push into these markets.

At its first Tizen Developer Summit in Bengaluru, India, the company shared the advancements it has made to the operating system and also the roadmap of things to come and appealed for developers to support it.

The company unveiled new Tizen SDKs for phones, smartwatches, and smart TVs. It has now brought in the capability to have floating buttons on its mobile operating system, and also added support for DALi (Dynamic Animation Library), a 3D engine that improves the animation capability of a phone. 

Samsung is providing TV developers with the ability to use HTML5, JS, CSS technologies to make new apps.

The company wants to improve the built-in integration for apps to use system features. The new SDK also has an improved TV simulator, which developers can use to code apps and test them out for different screen sizes.

Samsung also revealed that all 17 smart TVs it launched this year are powered by Tizen.

It could be that Samsung really is planning to walk away from Android and put some weight behind Tizen.

Last modified on 03 August 2015
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