Samsung to launch first Tizen smartphone as early as July

 

 
BARCELONA, Spain–Samsung Electronics expects to release its first smartphone running on the Tizen mobile operating system in July or August, CNET has learned.
The Tizen Association is scheduled to make the official announcement later this week at Mobile World Congress.
Tizen is an upstart operating system seen as an alternative to the stranglehold that Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS has on the smartphone industry. Samsung and Intel have been spearheading the development of the mobile OS, and Japan’s NTT Docomo has already committed to carry the phones.
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“Everything is smooth,” she said. “There’s a lot of respect between the two companies.”
 
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