This week, Samsung was represented in India the world's first smartphone operating system Tizen, but the presentation did not take place. In the summer of 2014 fell the same presentation, although Samsung has promised to begin selling Tizen-smartphones in Russia until the end of September. Tizen platform is dead, declared recently a top manager of the Chinese Huawei, which used to be preparing to release its own smartphone on it.
Tizen operating system should be an alternative to Android, iOS and Windows Phone.According to Rbc , plans to introduce 10 December Tizen-Samsung smartphone in India wrote a South Korean business newspaper Maeil. These plans confirmed to the newspaper The Wall Street Journal employee of one of the partner companies of the Korean handset manufacturer. According to him, all his communication with the team of Indian engineers Samsung pointed to the fact that the company will present on December 10 Tizen-smartphone for less than $ 100.
Blogger Tizen Indonesia reported that Samsung is going to sell in India Smartphone Samsung Z1, held in October in the US certification. Blogger published documentation phone - he 4-inch screen, 2-core processor clocked at 1.2 GHz, 3.2-megapixel camera. New works with two SIM-cards on 3G, it is integrated FM-radio.
However, the presentation of Samsung Z1 failed. The same thing happened in Russia in July: Samsung is then invited journalists and partners to the presentation Tizen-smartphone, but at the last moment it was canceled.
Plans to release its own smartphone operating system Tizen top managers Samsung told a conference in June Tizen Developer Conference 2014 in San Francisco. At the conference, promised that the sale of these smartphones in the world will begin with Russia in the III quarter, but on the shelves, they have not appeared.
Earlier, the head of Samsung Mobile in Russia Arkady Graf explained that sales of smartphones in the world Tizen will begin with Russia, because in the past there has been successful its own operating system Samsung - Bada. For example, in I quarter of 2012 for smart phones with Bada had 15% of all smartphone sales (in units) - third place behind Android (40%) and Symbian (34%), according to research firm J'son & Partners. «Tizen is a kind of evolution Bada» - said Graf.
So far, Samsung has released Tizen not on phones and other devices - Samsung NX300 camera and Samsung NX2000, «smart» Watch Gear 2 and Gear 2 Neo. Tizen - an open platform, plans to release a smartphone it announced other manufacturers, for example, the Chinese company Huawei. Now these plans in the past, the representative confirmed Huawei in Russia. "In the past we had a team of research Tizen, but I closed it," - said in August the head of consumer business Huawei Richard Yu newspaper The Wall Street Journal. "We feel that Tizen is no chance of success" - said Yu