Tizen is a name you might not be familiar with, but Samsung could change that fact with its upcoming smartphone.
The company’s Galaxy series of smartphones has obviously been one of the big success stories of the Android OS, but it could be that the Galaxy S5, yet to be unannounced, will support two different models – one for Android, one for Tizen. The latter is a Linux-based OS which has actually been conceived by Samsung itself along with Intel. The Galaxy S4, the current model, was spotted showing off Tizen software earlier this month.
Google may have helped Samsung reach the top of its game, but the company then takes a slice of the profits in return. Obviously, if Samsung introduced an OS under its own control, they’d be seeing the full extent of the profits. We had heard last month that Tizen could be all out abandoned by Samsung, so this is an interesting turn.
Source: IB Times