Tizen is the key that opens the door to a certain independence for Samsung with respect to its great ally, Google, and the line it maintains with Microsoft. Next year, the South Korean will maintain three ecosystems in its device structure, thus coexisting the platform that Intel has developed jointly with Android and Windows Phone.
This environment, which takes up the philosophy started with MeeGo and which will be accommodated in the Bada OS "" operating system that had its moment in the Samsung Wave family of terminals "", is focused on the multiplatform character, so we will see on on-board computers in cars, as well as on tablets and even household appliances. And of course, on smartphones.
It is precisely smartphones that are the last known in this regard. And it is that the first mobile equipped with the Tizen system is already a reality. At least in the prototype phase, although fully operational. This device would already be in the hands of some operators with whom Samsung wants to establish ties with a view to marketing this line of terminals. The South Korean media ZDNet has revealed that certain telephone companies in the Asian country are examining the attractions of this smartphone in order to study the possibility of putting it into circulation during the first half of 2014.
The latest rumors that had been had in this regard indicated that during the first quarter of next year Samsung would officially unveil the team based on Tizen, which invited to think about the possibility that CES 2014 or Mobile World Congress 2014 serve as scenarios to take the pulse of the market according to the possible penetration of this line of devices.
In spite of everything, from Samsung they have limited themselves to showing the possibilities of the new system in smart cameras and, surprise, in a refrigerator. All the indications that are available so far of the presence of Tizen in a phone have come to us in the form of leaks, pointing to possible adaptations of the Samsung Galaxy S4 to the needs of that platform.
The screenshots that have been known so far present Tizen as an environment that graphically stands halfway between the TouchWiz interface "" that has evolved in Samsung equipment through the Wave and Galaxy terminals "" and seen on MeeGo.
Let's remember that MeeGo was a project with the same multiplatform vocation that Tizen will have, although Nokia's plans to develop that path were abruptly interrupted by the turnaround that the Finnish company made in the direction of Microsoft, with the development of Lumia equipment based on Windows Phone ”” something that ended up burying not only the path started with the Nokia N9, but also the Symbian 3 and Nokia Belle lines ””.
Thus, thanks to those first operators that will test Tizen, in the next few days we could have more indications about the way in which Samsung will add to the market a new platform that will compete with Android, iOS, Windows Phone and others that will try to consolidate during 2014.
