Samsung Reveals The Very first Tizen Phone

[exfileme]

Samsung finally launches a Tizen phone.

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[NightLight]

not sure if this is gonna take off...

 

[vern72]

not sure if this is gonna take off...

It will take off when Google does something really unpopular or if something unfavorable is revealed that they were doing in secret in Android.

 

[Zeroplanetz]

To me the phone itself looks a little outdated, if it is in this pic. Also I wouldn't be able to tell this apart from an android device. Looks identical to me. 😵

 

[Guest]

This is probably going to make their phones more expensive and less reliable, at least for a couple of generations. This also means that eventually having a Samsung account is going to be mandatory. On the plus side their phones are (hopefully) going to have only half the bloat-ware. It must have taken a lot of faith in their customers' loyalty to essentially say "it's Google, or us"

 

[southernshark]

Asians tend to be pretty nationalistic, at least in their home countries, so I suspect this is targeted at SK consumers.

 

[hannibal]

Actually they can sell Tizen phones a little bit cheaper and ask more money in their own (closed) Tizen app shop. Like consoles this can be sold cheaper, because the user is forced to buy games from them at steep price.

 

[XM Keeper]

The front looks a lot like an lg optimus L9.

 

[texasti]

Why is Samsung wasting time and resources on developing another platform while Android is free and open source to anyone? Is Samsung no longer trust Google on Android platform? Or is it a sign that Google is going to be more restrictive on Android in near future so they are preparing for decreasing current dependency on Android?

 

[hannibal]

Why is Samsung wasting time and resources on developing another platform while Android is free and open source to anyone? Is Samsung no longer trust Google on Android platform? Or is it a sign that Google is going to be more restrictive on Android in near future so they are preparing for decreasing current dependency on Android?

It is all about the money. If Samsung manages to make Tizen popular, they will make money with app shop, like Apple is doing! So they are willing to make a closed environment where they make all the rules, like MS shop, and Apple shop are today. It is business decision.

 

[robochump]

Every large Tech company wants to emulate Apple's AppStore/iTunes. Tizen is Samsung's way of accomplishing their version of the AppStore. Also everyone forgets Android is NOT free. M$ and TI get royalties for every Android OS sold and perhaps Samsung is trying to avoid that cost as well. Either way Samsung has a big hill to climb and will mainly affect Android market share.