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 […]
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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 […]
Samsung pushes Tizen update to Galaxy Gear, makes it a Gear sans Galaxy
The Galaxy nomenclature in the Samsung portfolio signifies that the device is powered by Android. However, this will change with the latest update that Samsung is pushing to the original Galaxy Gear device (SM-V700). The software version is 2.2.0 and as SamMobile points out, users won’t feel that much of a difference except some improvements […]