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Project Anarchy, Havok’s mobile game development suite now available at no cost
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Havok — the physics middleware engine used by almost every big console and PC game — announced its start-to-finish mobile game development suite will be available at no cost to developers. Project Anarchy has tools for everything: visuals, physics, artificial intelligence and animation. We say “no cost” instead of free for a reason: Havok expects a few things out of its users in return. It wants to co-market some finished games and for clients to become part of its development community. Currently, that dev community includes folks programming for iOS, Android and Tizen. Microsofties may not be left out, however, as Havok has “flexible business models” for Windows Phone if you ping its sales team. Full details in the links below.
Filed under: Cellphones, Gaming, Mobile
Source: Project Anarchy
Jun 18
Jun 17
With a Samsung multi-device event coming up on the 20th of June, it’s no surprise that several machines have begun to surface well before their official unveiling. Today’s suggestion is that there’ll be at least one smartphone running Samsung’s own non-Android operating system Tizen. This device is said to be working with a rather powerful
Jun 10
Jun 10
Intel has been cooking up its own smartphone interface, it’s reported, intending to reskin Tizen and potentially Android with a new theme codenamed Obsidian. The new software will launch first on an Intel reference device known as “Josephine” sources tell Ars Technica, with a pared-back aesthetic using simple, flat iconography and a notification system new
Jun 10
The pure version of Tizen 2.0 is far from finalized, yet there already seems to be an alternative skin designed to sit on top of it. While Intel’s chips are currently capable of powering the new open source OS, the chip company is reportedly working on its own overlaid UI, known as Obsidian. Ars Technica got its hands on two videos of it in action, featuring notably flat and square icons compared to the circular ones we’ve seen in the pure version. There’s a consistent bottom strip of three soft keys for calls, messaging and contacts, and a tilt action for icons and contacts when a notification in an app is received. According to Ars, Intel may also bring the aesthetic to Android, surprising as that may sound. You can get a detailed look at its present state at the source link, while we scratch our heads asking “really?” and “why?”
Filed under: Cellphones, Software, Mobile, Intel
Source: Ars Technica
Jun 06
As it stands, both iOS and Android are dominating the smartphone scene, with platforms such as Blackberry and Windows Phone lagging behind. However you might have heard that there are alternatives out there, such as Sailfish OS, Firefox’s own mobile […]
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May 24
On February 25, we reported that Samsung would be stopping work on Bada OS while merging some of its features into Tizen OS, making the latter operating system backwards compatible with Bada apps. Almost a month later, word surfaced yet again that the Korean company will be releasing a high-end Tizen smartphone in August or September of this year, but all went silent again. Now a Tizen-based Samsung smartphone has been imaged and leaked online.
The images appeared over on the Greek Tizen community website Tizen.gr, with the “About phone” menu showing the codename “Redwood” and the model number being listed as GT-18800. They also reveal that Samsung has implemented S-Voice, S-Beam, and Wi-Fi Direct into the handset, which is a welcomed addition. The operating system is Tizen 2.1.
The handset is slated for release to 500 developers who are taking part in the Tizen Developer Conference, and so it is possible this is a development-only handset that won’t ever be an official, commercially-available phone. No specs on it were revealed except for the resolution of its display, which sits at 720p HD. The images are too dark to see anything about the body of the phone, unfortunately.
As we mentioned, Samsung will reportedly release a Tizen handset this fall, per a statement made by the company’s mobile business Executive Vice President Lee Young Hee at a conference in Seoul. According to Hee, the phone will be “in the the high-end category. The device will be the best product equipped with the best specifications.” No specifics were provided, however.
Such a statement followed a leaked image of a Samsung Tizen smartphone that was imaged back in May 2012, with not much being said about it except that it featured a 720p display and a 1.2GHz dual-core ARM chipset. Such a device wasn’t intended for consumer release, however, being aimed at developers working on Tizen apps.
SOURCE: GSM Arena
Samsung GT-18800 Tizen smartphone images leaked is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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May 24
Samsung’s relationship with Google seems solid enough for now, but the company is still hedging its bets with Tizen should things turn sour. Several devices running the alternative Linux-based OS are due to launch this year, and the GT-i8800 looks like it might be one of them. If this image from Tizen Greek Community is to be believed, then what you’re looking at above is codenamed “Redwood”. The phone runs Tizen 2.1 (an update on the version we last played with), packs S-Voice and sounds a lot like the the GT-i8805 we found out about yesterday. With over 900 million Android devices now in the wild, Samsung will not have an easy time trying to peddle its new OS, but we’re curious to see where this goes. Click the source for more shots of the phone in action.
Filed under: Cellphones, Mobile, Samsung
Source: Tizen Greek Community
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