There are the first screenshots have surfaced of the I9500, the Samsung smartphone with a Linux-distro Tizen. Tizen is a new OS of Samsung and Intel. The screenshots show an Android and a Bada-like interface.
The interface is similar to that of Samsung’s Android skin TouchWiz and Samsung’s own smartphone platform Bada, as seen from the screenshots. It remains unclear what the differences are between Android and Bada and the Linux platform Tizen, that Samsung together with Intel and Vodafone develops.
The emulator in the sdk, logs on to websites as a Samsung GT-I9500, which probably is that the model number is the first smartphone with Tizen. The emulator shows a device that is reminiscent of the Galaxy S II with a square Home button. The resolution is 800×480 pixels, which suggests that the smartphone, that resolution will have.
The screenshots came out because the sdk for an unknown amount of time online. Now is this offline, but the Argentine developer RealNorth has the tools tried. The home screens can, still no widgets, but for the other it would be a lot on Bada seem. Also, there is a notificatiegedeelte, that just as in Android, Bada and iOS, in the bar at the top.
Tizen is the operating system based on a Linux kernel that Samsung is developing together with Intel and Vodafone. Sunday, it appeared that Samsung next month with a Tizen smartphone will come out. Tizen is valid as a successor of MeeGo, the OS that Intel and Nokia jointly developed. MeeGo was in turn a merge of the Linux-distros Moblin of Intel and Maemo of Nokia. There are few products with MeeGo on the market. Nokia stopped in early 2011 with MeeGo. Intel pulled this fall the plug out in order to focus on Tizen. Tizen have to be distinguished because it is fully designed on the basis of html5.
