Four are the predominant operating systems in the current mobile phone market: Google's Android, Apple's iOS, Microsoft's Windows Phone and the formerly known as Nokia's Symbian. BlackBerry OS also populates the market, although its presence is becoming lighter every day compared to the exposed platforms. Others, like Bada OS, become even more anecdotal, and that's not to mention the suburban but applauded MeeGo.
Against this background, the interest of the South Korean company Samsung in developing a new move in this scenario is striking. Its name, you know, is Tizen, and we understand it as the result of the work between the Asian company and the North American firm Intel, precisely understood as a solution that seeks to merge the best of the aforementioned MeeGo ”” which ended up being formed as an experimental environment limited to the Nokia N9 ”” and the Bada system itself.
This platform, which has already been seen in video working in a prototype, will begin its commercial journey during the second half of the year, as we have learned through Unwired View. More precise details have not been known about the plans that are being handled for the launch of the new operating system, as well as the type of devices that will serve to support the launch, although they have transcended which companies will support the first Tizen steps.
Of course, Samsung and Intel will do their part for the penetration of this ecosystem in the market, but they will not be the only ones. The last firm known to support Tizen is the Taiwanese HTC, joining others such as Movistar, Vodafone, Orange, Sprint, NTT Docomo, Huawei, NEC or Panasonic, who will participate in one way or another in the dissemination and expansion of Tizen as an operating environment.
From the latest images that have been known about the operation of the platform, it gives the impression that Samsung is the one that takes the lead in the staging of Tizen. It is not for less. The prototype that has been seen on video has been run by the South Korean multinational, and in fact, the user interface bears more than one similarity to the native layer of the firm, TouchWiz, especially if we establish connections with the version that is lets see in Bada OS.
In fact, it seems that Samsung's strategy with Tizen is intimately linked to Bada, to such an extent that the Seoul-based company's plans are to make one platform fold under the other. In other words: Tizen could cast its shadow on Bada, absorbing it, so that the latter's working philosophy can be expanded through terminals that run on the account of other manufacturers. In the case of HTC, the Taiwanese would end up designing a portfolio that would go through work with three platforms: Android, Windows Phone, and from the second half of the year, Tizen.
