We were overjoyed to see a high profile messaging app like WhatsApp available on the Tizen Store at launch for the Samsung Z1. Now it seems the WhatsApp Android App, which used Open Mobile's ACL technology to run on Tizen, has served its purpose and a Native App has launched...
According to a detailed but unsourced and unverified Reddit post (via 9to5Google), a dark horse might soon join the race to digitize your car dashboard: the only sorta-successful smartphone maker HTC, which is supposedly working on an Android-based automotive system called Cello. It sounds sort of preposterous, given that HTC would...
Whoever you are, wherever you are, Google wants to get you online. Today's rumor, courtesy of the Telegraph, is that the company is negotiating to bring cheap roaming to its upcoming wireless operator service.That's not a huge deal in itself—and not yet confirmed by Google—but it may well be Google's first shot...
Earlier this week, Google unveiled the Chromebit—a Chrome OS computer the size of a candy bar that plugs into a TV's HDMI port. This device, manufactured by Asus, is the latest in a line of “computers on a stick,” a type of gadget we're likely to see a lot more of.The...
What is IoT? First, what is the Internet of Things? I will try to answer this question based on my personal research and experiments as a Tizen and IoTivity community contributor. Many analysts or programmers may feel the "IoT hype" is overrated, since it became one of top buzz word...
The following are the TOP 20 Apps that have been downloaded from the Tizen Store during February 2015. The Number #1 app is WhatsApp which is a popular Instant Messaging application that recently got voice calling capabilities on Tizen, that is even before iOS (Apple) has got it. We...
Though we didn’t see it at Mobile World Congress in March, the LG G4 could finally be set for a grand unveiling on April 28. Plenty of leaks and speculation have hit the Web about the new flagship smartphone, but recent rumors portray a device that may have every fad and...
Amazon has a bold new gadget, and it’s a button. It’s literally a stick-on, Internet-connected button that, when pressed, sends a “Bat-Signal" to Amazon to order more dog food, coffee, detergent or other common household goods. The new Dash Button looks like an April Fool’s Day joke, but it actually reveals...
The Samsung Gear 2 Smartwatch runs Tizen and in the following demos we can see how it connects to an Intel Edison development board, which is running Linux that is built using the Yocto Project. The Intel Edison board has quite a powerful 32-bit quark CPU which makes it...
HTC's One M9 got rave reviews at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and might be HTC's best offering yet. But this phone, which goes on sale first thing Friday morning, seems doomed to be forgotten—not least because what at first looks like its most remarkable feature is basically vaporware.The One...
Cyanogen CEO Kirk McMaster has been making a big deal recently about his company's plans to "take away Android from Google," as he put it at a recent meeting. He calls Google's control of Android a "tyranny" and most recently said Cyanogen plans on “putting a bullet through Google’s head.”A recent...
The world has waited four years to learn what Steve Jobs meant when he told biographer Walter Isaacson that he'd “cracked” the television conundrum. Anticipation ran high for an Apple-branded integrated TV set. Now it looks like the company has other plans in mind—namely, a revamp of its existing TV...
Apple wants to jazz up the Apple TV experience, say BuzzFeed sources, but not with an incremental product update. According to the report, when the new version of the TV streaming set-top hits the market this summer, it will finally deliver access to the App Store and long-expected Siri voice...
Mobile World Congress saw a flurry of Smart Watches from manufacturers like LG and Huawei and after playing with one after the other, there was one thing that they all had in common, ALL the Android Wear based Smart Watches offered identical software features. Wow, How boring? It seems...
Infraware's POLARIS App Generator (PAG) boasts that it provides "an easy way to port Android apps to Tizen". The Tizen store has Native and HTML5 application, but can also run Android applications, and the current compatible solution is OpenMobile's Android Compatibility Layer (ACL), but Infraware have informed Tizen Experts...
Jaunt's virtual reality cameraIn the year since cinematic virtual reality startup Jaunt launched, the world of VR has once again turned upside down. There are new headsets, new industries interested and, finally, definite plans to release it to consumers. The race is on to determine which content will define the world's...
It's now time for you to get better acquainted with the Tizen Samsung Z1 Smartphone, its User Interface (UI) and also the User Experience (UX). The Z1 benefits from running Tizen, which means it is a smooth fluid experience that can be customised to suit your specific needs. The...
The Nymi Band identifies you through your heartbeat.Passwords have a big problem: They're not very secure, and no one likes using them. That's why you now find Web browsers, password managers, and mobile phones all trying to take some of the pain out of the process.Today's technology is looking for...
The man in the car next to me is on the phone with the police. Just beyond him on the grass, a teenager in a hoodie is moving erratically. He takes off and the man chases after him, despite the police urging him to sit tight.It is, of course, the...
When Google and Motorola revealed the Nexus 6, a giant-sized Android phablet that launched late last year, the Nexus 5’s days were officially numbered. And with Wednesday’s grand opening of Google’s new digital storefront for hardware, the Google Store, it seems that the Nexus 5 wasn’t invited to the party....
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