Tizen is the inheriting system of Bada. For those with low memory, Bada OS is the platform that was used as the bedside environment in the Wave line of phones. It was not a bad proposal, although its condition of opening act for Android, first, and Windows Phone, later, as well as the lack of support from other manufacturers, ended up cornering it. Now Tizen is called to be the native alternative of the South Korean firm.
And it does so at a time when Google and Apple dominate a market in which Microsoft is beginning to gain its own niche, a result of the poor performance of the BlackBerry OS and the gradual disappearance of Symbian. Firefox OS is another candidate to scratch tenths in the share of operating systems, a market that will also have the presence of others, such as Sailfish "" the work of ex- Nokia engineers "" or the mobile version of Ubuntu.
Of all the aspirational platforms, Tizen is the best positioned, thanks to the support of Samsung. And today we can take a look at what this system looks like in what could be the first mobile that would go on sale to present this environment. With no commercial name yet, the smartphone is seen with the product code Z9005 in a video posted by the guys at Tizen Experts on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TUgZBwZybU
The device itself makes no secret of its prototype status, with a clunky and inelegant casing that would have no other interest than serving as a test base for the operating system. However, if we do an exercise of imagination and ignore the presence of the white side coverage, perhaps we can see in this Z9005 a review of the Samsung Galaxy S4, as it was leaked weeks ago.
If we stop to examine the operating system itself, the video of almost ten minutes that has been published shows, at first, that the TouchWiz touch is more than evident. TouchWiz, remember, is the name given to the user interface that Samsung places on its Android- based mobiles. However, the aspect does not stop there, since there are elements that lead us to remember another ill-fated platform: MeeGo. That project, developed in tandem between Intel and Nokia, ended up materializing in a phone, the Nokia N9, which served, in part, to conceive the design of the Nokia Lumia 800 and later.
That environment boasted rounded icons that have ended up being transferred to the Asha system, installed on the Finnish mobile phones, and has also served as inspiration in this section for Tizen. In the notifications section, the Android details return to the forefront, something that is even more evident when you take a look at the system settings menu, filled with graphic references to the Google platform. Even the interface of the camera is traced to the one we see in the reference phones of the Samsung Galaxy family .
