With Android and iOS dominating the market, you’ll be hard pressed to find a good smartphone that runs on a different operating system. That’s precisely why I figured that some of you may be interested in some alternatives, so I decided to dig around a bit and see what I can find. As fate would have it, ...
You might remember Tizen as the mobile operating system for a few high end smartphone devices a couple of years ago, that looked and acted as a Android clone. If you don’t know, Tizen is an operating system based on the Linux kernel and GNU C Library implementing the Linux API. It’s owned partially by ...
Samsung have been trying to launch a phone running on their in-house Tizen operating system for the longest time now without any real success. The company was forced to delay the device several times in the past due to various issues, but now it looks like we’re finally going to see it early next year. ...
Samsung has been implementing TouchWiz UI on Android into Galaxy phones for quite some time now. Many have criticized TouchWiz for being too colorful and cartoonish, which is true in comparison to the new Material Design elements Android has been implementing in the Google Play Store and future Android L OS. Samsung’s TouchWiz is the ...
Each month, we see a week or two of intense hype around wearable devices. Last month, it was at the beginning, when IFA Berlin was underway and all you could see on the internet was the Moto 360, Samsung Gear S, LG G Watch R, Sony SmartBand Talk and Asus ZenWatch. While most of the ...
Samsung has been pushing Tizen in the wearable market recently, and we also heard rumors about the company launching a mid-range Tizen phone in the future, although how people will receive such a product is hard to say. Nonetheless, the latest smartwatch from the company that runs Tizen, the Gear S, will have Opera Mini ...
Tizen is Samsung’s own attempt at a mobile OS and currently you will be able to find it on the new Galaxy Gear S smartwatch which has G3 connectivity built-in. Tizen is aimed to be a competitor to Android, iOS and other underdog mobile OS platforms and it offers interesting features like dynamic boxes that can ...
Samsung had promised a while back that we’ll be seeing a smartphone running on their Tizen operating system sometime during this summer. Sure enough, the company announced the Samsung Z at the beginning of June with a launch event scheduled for July 10th. The event was meant to take place yesterday during the Tizen developers summit held ...
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It looks like Samsung will again team up with Google for yet another device. CNET reports that Samsung is planning to launch a smartwatch, similar to their already existing Galaxy Gear, which will instead run the new Android Wear, a modified version of the Android operating system tailored for smartwatches and other wearable tech. The device ...
According to a CNET report, Samsung is planning to launch an Android Wear smartwatch next week during Google’s I/O 2014 developers’ conference. The article says that the upcoming device will be similar to the Galaxy Gear and Gear 2 Neo smartwatches. Moreover, the Korean company seems to be working on two models of this still unannounced device. “Samsung has been ...
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Tags: Android Wear, Galaxy Gear, Gear 2 Neo, Gear Glass, Google Glass, Google I/O, IFA Trade Show, Rumors, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy Note 4, smartwatch, Tizen