Samsung releases its first phone with Tizen before the end of June. That the manufacturer has confirmed in an interview. Tizen is the operating system on the new smartwatch from the South Korean manufacturer.
The smartphone with Tizen actually had all of last winter is due to be released, but the Japanese provider NTT Docomo and the French Orange blew both the release of a Tizen device at the last moment. Now comes the device in June still in the shops in some countries where we do a good job, ” says a Samsung executive in an interview with Reuters.
The first smartphone with Tizen will be a high-end model, while later this year a second appears that what is cheaper. In which countries Samsung devices with Tizen will be release, is unclear. The chance is small that it comes to the Netherlands; from the manufacturers, the Netherlands has come to be known as a country where Android and iOS have a firm grasp on the market and which competing operating systems are hardly given a chance.
Samsung has created the first hardware with Tizen already released in the Netherlands; the smartwatch Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo, which last week at the same time with the Galaxy S5 came on the market. Tizen is an operating system on a Linux kernel that Samsung together with Intel. It is a continuation of the work that Intel, together with with Nokia did to MeeGo. There has never been a phone with Tizen has been released.
