Tizen

The New Gear S2 Doesn’t Sound Like an Apple Watch Killer

In a wearable preamble to the gadget onslaught that will flood Berlin this week, Samsung’s just outed its latest attempt to win over your wrist-puter heart. It’s the Gear S2, an update to last year’s Galaxy Gear S, which was just too weird to love. Almost nothing is visually similar between the two watches—the Gear…

Samsung says that its line of 2015 Smart TVs will run apps on the company’s Tizen operating system, instead of the more obvious Android option. The company is obviously trying to give its floundering platform a push. The TVs are set to be announced next week at CES in Las Vegas.

What Is Tizen?

This year, Samsung will sell (at least) two phones and a watch that don’t run Android. Instead, they’ll run something called Tizen. That’s a major departure for such an important player in the smartphone game. But what is Tizen? And will you actually want to use it? Tizen is a new(ish) operating system… Tizen is…

Samsung’s Android Escape Plan, And What It Means for You

There’s not a whole lot that’s new about Samsung’s Galaxy Gear 2. It’s take two of a product that wasn’t that great on the first go-round. But underneath, the Gear 2 isn’t just another gadget; it’s a defiant shot across Google’s bow. It’s a trial run where Samsung can practice seceding from the world of…

This Could Be an Early Build of Intel’s Mobile OS UI

Ars Technica has screenshots of what it says is Intel’s UI overlay for use on mobile handsets in the future. If real, these early shots of the skin, codenamed “Obsidian”, represent the earliest look at Intel’s vision for the Linux-backed Tizen OS, as well as for what we should be looking for on future Android…

Samsung’s saying it’ll have its first high-end Tizen phone out as early as this August. Take that, Google. [Bloomberg]

Samsung has confirmed it’ll launch more than one open-source, Linux-based Tizen smartphone this year. [Bloomberg]

Samsung Rumored to Release Open-Source, Tizen-Based Phone in 2013

Samsung is a big player when it comes to making some of the most popular Android phones, but that doesn’t mean they don’t also like to dabble in their own, Google-free side-projects. According to Japan’s Daily Yomiuri, Samsung aims to launch its first phone running the open-source Tizen operating system sometime in 2013. Linux-based Tizen,…