Samsung's new OS: Tizen

Tizen is a fairly new operating system based on the Linux operating system, it is the projects started by Samsung and Intel in 2012. Samsung has also stopped it's Bada project and merged Bada into it's Tizen effort. In my opinion the goal of Tizen is to reduce Samsung reliance on Android for it's mobile phone business as Samsung is not making any money from the software sales.

Tizen is different from Android and other major mobile OS in that it is HTML5.

There has been many prototypes Tizen smartphones, however no Tizen phones are still commerically available to the consumers. The general feel of Tizen is that it looks exactly like Android. So I don't know if the consumer will have anything to gain from the operating system, considering the customer will lose all their Google products.

The first commercially available Tizen device is not a smartphone, but in fact it's a smart-watch from Samsung, the Samsung Gear 2.

So do you think the Tizen OS will be success?

Source:

https://www.tizen.org/

http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/gear/gear2_features.html
-Ming Ren