Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Samsung unveils Tizen: smartphone now, television next year. Samsung Z model will be demonstrated at the conference Tizen … – Open Systems

John Ribeiro

news service IDG, Bangalore

Samsung has introduced its first smartphone, which operates under the operating system Tizen. TV with this OS should appear next year.

Model Samsung Z, equipped with Super AMOLED display and high definition quad-core processor with a clock speed of 2.3 GHz, the South Korean manufacturer is positioned as the first commercial smartphone OS with Tizen. The device will be installed version of Tizen 2.2.1.

Among the features of a smartphone should note the presence of embedded fingerprint reader and enhanced power saving mode, which allows the phone in emergencies continue to operate even at the minimum battery level. The new model has 2 GB of RAM, 16 GB of internal flash memory and a connector for microSD cards up to 64GB.

Model Samsung Z will be presented at the conference Tizen Developer Conference, held in San Francisco. In Russia, it goes on sale in the third quarter of this year. Planned to supply to other markets.

Applications for Samsung Z will be placed in a special shop Tizen Store. Under incentive program developers, Samsung intends to arrange a competition application in Russia and other CIS countries.

Powered Tizen, built on Linux and supported by Intel and a number of other major players have already been created smart watches Gear 2 Gear 2 and Neo, but in the short term should appear and other devices, including TVs.

«TV Tizen platform will be released in 2015 – said the press service of Samsung. – Our company continues to improve technology and strengthen its leading position in the market of TV devices ».

in July must be submitted a package for software developers, who would herald the emergence of TV Tizen.

term objectives of the company provide for the transfer of the operating system on a fairly wide range of devices. “Ecosystem Tizen will cover an extensive area, which will include various categories of products, including mobile devices, wearable technology and, of course, TVs,” – said the press service.

Today access to all necessary TV functions, developers can implement in the absence of physical and TV. New debugging feature allows them to perform remote code modification on their PCs, whereas previously had to connect directly to the TV’s software and correct application errors there.

In the beta version of the SDK includes various scenarios, including the function Smart Interaction, which allows to control the TV using gestures and voice commands. Means to support multiple screens can be used to connect your TV to other devices, including mobile and wearable.

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