Samsung’s Z may not have seen the day but Z1 has as Samsung India took the stage to unveil the world’s first Tizen-powered device. The phone is now up for sale for Rs. 5,700 that is touted to be tailored for Indian audiences with localised apps. Codenamed Kiran (means hope in Hindi), the Samsung Z1 […]
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There are over 100 partners in Tizen Association
The Tizen Association introduced its Partner Program in 2013 to bring expertise in the development of the Tizen OS and the association today announced to have added 16 new members at the Developer Summit in Shanghai, China. This brings the total number to over 100 members. The 16 new members include: CloudTrains Systems Digital Horizons […]
Nokia HERE maps announced for Samsung Galaxy smartphones, Gear smartwatches
Nokia-owned HERE service were teasing a collaboration with Samsung and they’ve finally announced to bring their turn-by-turn offline navigation service for Samsung devices. While Samsung did confirm during the Gear S announcement that the smartwatch will take advantage of HERE’s navigation data, the app “HERE for Gear” will work with any Tizen-powered smartphones and wearables […]
Samsung announces its first Tizen phone – Samsung Z
We’ve had way many showcases of the Tizen smartphone but this is the first time we’ll see a device that will go on sale and it unsurprisingly, comes from Samsung. Dubbed Samsung Z (SM-Z910F), Samsung has adopted the same faux leather back from the Galaxy series but has a slightly revamped design. On the features […]
Samsung revitalises Tizen TV plans with release of Tizen TV SDK
It was in September last year when we first heard about Samsung’s intentions of developing a Tizen TV and they’ve inched a closer to their goal with the release of Tizen-based Samsung TV SDK. Marking it as an industry’s first, the beta SDK will be available to developers in early July and Samsung will most […]