Samsung Launches Tizen Phone In India 35
puddingebola notes that Samsung's first smartphones powered by its Tizen operating system have gone on sale in India. "After plenty of speculation and an abort launch in Russia last year, Samsung has finally managed to release its first phone powered by the Tizen operating system. The Samsung Z1 is coming to India initially, where it is available to buy for 5,700 INR — that’s around $92 — from today. The Z1 is an affordable device, both in price and specs. It packs a four-inch WVGA PLS screen, and is powered by a 1.2 GHz dual-core processor and 768 MB RAM. There’s a 3.1-megapixel camera on the rear, and a limited VGA camera on the front. The phone runs version 2.3 of the Tizen operating system, and comes with 4GB of on-device storage which can be expanded by up to 64GB via a micro SD card. It supports dual SIMs, as is commonplace with devices in India."
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Not in India. As long as it can run android apps [tizenexperts.com] they won't care wha the OS is.
RTA:
“Both Android and iOS apps must have their codes re-written to run on Tizen devices,” a spokesperson said.
So, it depends if and how fast the App developers want to convert their code.
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I don't think a lot of people "want" Android. Just its apps. Most other OS's will get better battery life than Android. They won't lag, won't run in a VM, etc.
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if you think tizen style javascript apps are better than android vm apps then.. eh.
whatever. in design tizen isn't that different from any other linux + app layer designs.
it's just whatever shit you have installed on the android, nokia x(yes an android based phone) gets a week+ of standby(and about same specs as the samsung tizen and about the same price and has been out for a year. not for long of course since ms killed it and never released the x in euro/usa).
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All the Android Apps which work on the A316 work on the Z1 too...
Hmm, Open Mobile's proprietary ACL looks like the smartest move Samsung made in the whole slow motion Tizen trainwreck. Obviously, completely incompatible with an open source drop unless Samsung outright buys the company and releases it Google style, which is about the only possible why they could claw back their tarnished cred at this point. No doubt, ACL is just 99% BSD licensed Android libs, which demonsrates why Google pulled a real boner not making at least some of the Copyleft. Samsung could realistic
Tizen is OSS (Score:1)
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Tizen is very appealing in that regard and why so many OEM's are looking at Tizen in their devices.
Hahaha bullshit. No one is lining up to use Tizen.
Look for all manner or smart devices [tizenexperts.com] to start running Tizen in the near future.
All manner? Of all the stories on the first page only 6 were about anything but this phone. The top story was just about people wanting Tizen on a compute stick and only 2 other stories were about something using Tizen that wasn't Samsung.
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Although also Tizen = liMo + MeeGo because Bada was rolled into Tizen later
And MeeGo = Maemo + Mobilin (Nokia and Intel respectively).
So, ultimately Tizen = LiMo + Maemo + Moblin + Bada.
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Samsung has put A LOT of time and energy into Tizen but Tizen is OSS from the ground up. Google gave us a mostly OSS Android experience but OEM's don't like being beholden to them in many areas.
What he said. Also, Tizen is NOT "OSS from the ground up". It is a mishmash of licensing schemes and some of the software is very definitely proprietary.
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Like hell it is. Samsung can't get its head out of its butt to do a buildable code drop of the OS let alone the SDK. Don't even think about outside contributions. Bugs? A Samsung engineer will get to it, sure thing. Hardware? Real Soon Now. Look, it's not like just any handset can run this, ok? It has to be a special, moisture proof wankable handset. OK, let's see the source tree for the India phone. Let's download and build it, load it into the ROM. Don't forget to take your bows on Twitter when you're don
Indian market is very strange (Score:4, Interesting)
Instead of looking at raw sales based on number of units or gross receipts, if one starts breaking down the market by amount of profit generated, iPhone is well ensconced. Top end Samsung comes in next.
Samsung should be careful to distinguish the models and handsets very obviously and visibly. If the brand acquires an association as the "phone for the unwashed masses", the high profit segment will just disappear. My nephew visiting me derisively called the old flip phone "a servant [maid] 's phone". Other nephews and nieces make sure their clothes and accessories will not be mistaken for a cheap imitation. It is a very class conscious society. And the training starts early. Almost all their buying decision seems to be driven by "what my peers will think if they catch me using this product?".
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Decent LG Android handset [amazon.com] you can get right now, unlocked, for 40 bucks.
Android is now more a apps market than an OS (Score:2)
* Users want Android because there fell confident that this allow them to be at the same level as others users.
* Developers want Android because there fell confident that this allow them to spread there application to the maximum of users.
* Manufacturers want Android because users and developers want Android.
Now the drawback of this situation is that Google take too much control of Android. Most users and developers don't have any problem with that, but this is certainly not the case for many manufacturers