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Samsung committed to launching Tizen devices almost as soon as 2013 began, but there has been little to show for its promise outside of a developer phone. To our relief, there are signs of sustained interest in the project: Techtastic has spotted a Samsung user agent profile for the Tizen-toting GT-i8805. The web code suggests that the company is playing it safe with its first wave of hardware for the OS, however. While the i8805 appears to support LTE, mentions of a 720p display and an older ARM Cortex-A9 chip probably won’t have technofreaks regretting their Galaxy S 4 purchase. Even so, the sighting should give hope to those who’ve been waiting months on end for Bada’s spiritual successor.

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As Android is not owned by Samsung, we guess the South Korean manufacturer knows how precarious it is if they were to put all their eggs into the Android basket, which is why it is not surprising that they have branched out to Windows Phone, and recently Tizen. The first Tizen smartphone by Samsung has yet to be announced, but it seems that model numbers of upcoming Tizen devices may have been identified by the good folks at Blog of Mobile (Japanese).

The website has managed to discovered two devices which feature the model numbers GT-I880 and GT-I8805, although we’re guessing they are probably the same device, with the latter probably offering an additional feature such as dual SIM slots or LTE. Further digging by the site revealed this information: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Tizen 2.1; en-us; SAMSUNG GT-I8800) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/2.1.0 Mobile, possibly confirming that these are indeed Tizen-based phones.

Samsung expects to debut Tizen devices later this year, so we guess until then, the GT-I8800 and GT-I8805 are possible Tizen models to look out for.

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We’ve heard this before, but it has now been confirmed – Samsung will be releasing a Tizen-based smartphone this year. The information comes from Samsung’s Executive Vice President of its mobile business, who offered the information in Seoul earlier this week. The handset will be very high-end, according to his statement.

Said Samsung’s Lee Young Hee, “The Tizen phone will be out in August or September, and this will be in the high-end category. The device will be the best product equipped with the best specifications.” Unfortunately, no other details were dropped about the handset, such as what these “best specifications” will be.

This comes at a time when Samsung has seen a huge increase in handset sales, the vast majority of which run the Android mobile operating system. The move to launch a Tizen-based handset will be a step towards reducing its reliance on the Google OS and will provide consumers with another option.

We saw various Tizen rumors crop up throughout 2012, with some going back as far as May, such as the Tizen handset caught on camera that is believed to be a Samsung device (pictured above). In September, we reported that rumor had it Samsung would be releasing a Tizen-based Galaxy smartphone, and then in December sources claimed that a Samsung Tizen device would be arriving in 2013 with Vodafone and DoCoMo.

[via Bloomberg]

Samsung to release high-end Tizen handset in August or September is written by Brittany Hillen & originally posted on SlashGear.
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Sure, an early version of Tizen 2.0 Magnolia may have first emerged last September, but now the SDK and source code have dropped the “alpha” designation for a proper release. After a few months of incubation, the open source OS has been laden with enhanced support for HTML5 and a beefed up Web UI framework that enables full-screen and multi-window features. Developers can now leverage new hardware APIs for Bluetooth and NFC support, and access a device’s call history, calendar and messaging “subsystems.” Support for background applications, text-to-speech and IP Push have also made it into the operating system along with reference applications including the likes of a calendar, gallery and phone app. In addition, a native IDE and a spruced up web development environment have been released with the latest code. Hit the source link for the full skinny and appropriate downloads.

[Image credit: Tizen Project, Flickr]

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With Google’s acquisition of Motorola Mobility last year, manufacturers of Android-based devices such as Samsung are, as evidenced by their announcement today*, making moves to cut down their reliance on the big G. This announcement comes straight from Samsung in Suwon, South Korea, where Samsung has made it clear that they’re moving forward with Tizen on a real significant scale.

*Note: today’s announcement did not specifically note that the Motorola deal with Google had anything to do with Samsung’s decision to move forward with Tizen – the operating system born of yester-year’s OS Meego. It’s an important point to make that such a suggestion would not be a fantastically intelligent thing for Samsung to say when Google is still so important to their business with Android. What has been said specifically is a bit of an analysis piece on the situation by Byun Han Joon from KB Investment & Securities in Seoul.

“The Tizen was born as Samsung hoped to lighten its growing dependence on Google on concerns that its top position in the smartphone market may weaken following the Google- Motorola tie-up.” – Byun Han Joon

A report from earlier this week suggested that it wouldn’t just be Korea that’s seeing Tizen devices. The report had both DoCoMo of Japan, Vodafone in Europe, and France Telecom all onboard for a Tizen device (or perhapse more than one Tizen device) for the year 2013. Samsung’s report this week comes in the form of a confirmation that Intel-backed Tizen will, indeed, move forward from here.

“We plan to release new, competitive Tizen devices within this year and will keep expanding the lineup depending on market conditions.” – Samsung

Will you be looking to pick up a Tizen device within the next 12 months? Have a peek at all recent stories on Tizen in the timeline below to see more about this next-generation operating system for Samsung!

[via Bloomberg]

Samsung confirms Tizen handsets for 2013 is written by Chris Burns & originally posted on SlashGear.
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