Samsung’s ‘Pride’ and joy? A Tizen 3.0-based SM-Z250F phone with ‘voice control’

Tizen 3.0 is reportedly the next big version of Samsung's Android-competing OS, with a mystery phone codenamed Pride in the pipeline.

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Samsung Z2 aims to keep Tizen afloat with crazy low price, 4G LTE, dated design

Choice is always good, and you can never have too many options when it comes to the competitive yet rigid world of mobile operating systems. Unfortunately, Samsung, much like Microsoft or BlackBerry lately, doesn’t seem very convinced its proprietary platform has what it takes to challenge Android and iOS on a large scale.As such, the third Tizen handheld lands in India today with modest aspirations and a fitting price. Even ...

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Galaxy galleria: details show up on Samsung Z2, Galaxy C9, J7 Prime

With the Galaxy Note 7 out of the spotlight, perhaps it’s time to move swiftly onto some more mid-ranger and budget-end devices?Let’s start with Samsung’s latest Tizen star, the Z2. Media renders have popped up ahead of the device’s launch in India in just hours. The ...

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Samsung Z2 likely to go official at last on August 23, high-end Z9 Tizen phone also in the works

With a minuscule reported global market share of 0.2 percent after more than four years of on and off software development work, 18 months since Z1’s commercial release, and a rapidly shrinking supporter roster, you might be wondering why Samsung continues to bet on a seemingly losing horse called Tizen.Well, according to The Korea Herald, the company’s (extremely) long-term plan of “leaving” Android is still on, and Tizen-powered phones will continue to be unveiled in low-end markets such as India, Indonesia, South ...

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Official-looking Samsung Z2 promo video surfaces ahead of launch

While Samsung’s leap over the number 6 in the recent branding of the newest Galaxy Note installment was certainly surprising, it also had a reasonable explanation (or two), signaling a massive hardware upgrade (which isn’t entirely factual), as well as bringing the S Pen phablet family on the same level with the Galaxy S lineup.That said, it’s much trickier to justify the name of the next-gen Tizen phone for emerging ...

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Samsung Z2 specs and availability supposedly nailed down

The latest Tizen push is merely days away and it seems that the whole show may have been spoiled to us at this point. Samsung’s Z2 smartphone should be making its entry-level presence known to entry-level countries (better known as emerging markets) late this month and it seems that SamMobile has an idea of what will go down in this device, when and ...

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Samsung Z2 test unit appears at African Galaxy Note 7 event

Kenya got its first look at two new devices yesterdays that Samsung unpacked yesterday. Of course, you have the Galaxy Note 7, but there was also a Tizen smartphone that is being made out to be the crux of the chaebol’s developing market bid.Techweez got to play around with a pre-production unit of the Samsung Z2, a thick, compact phone that seems to think its of Note 5 ...

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Samsung Z2 may bring Tizen to South Africa

Samsung has added one more market to its target demographic for the Tizen-powered Z2.From ETNews’s industry sources, lingua franca from South Africa has been included into the Z2’s language packs besides India, Indonesia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Kenya and Nigeria.The Z2 will be Tizen’s first effort with 4G connectivity and will help customers jump onto developing LTE infrastructure at a ...

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Lenovo ZUK Z2 sees daylight with Snapdragon 820, 4GB RAM, $275 price tag

As part of Lenovo’s ongoing restructuring and reorganization efforts, the ZUK sub-brand is deemed the company’s salvation in China, where Vibes and Lemons have recently lost steam and the Motorola name means a ...

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Exynos 8890 on ZUK Z2 runs well, says exec

Lenovo sub-brand ZUK released its Z2 Pro last month. The irony remains that what is just the Z2 has yet to be launched. But it’s definitely coming soon and we have chief executive Chang Cheng telling us just a little bit of how this new phone runs.He posted onto Weibo that after a whole day of use, he was liking this [Exynos] 8890. Yep, that

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Samsung’s next Tizen phone could be a four-inch Z2

Tizen isn’t the most exciting mobile platform out there right now, but Samsung wants to keep progress going on its baby. After all, it is outdoing BlackBerry’s sales in some markets. And to further things along, we may soon see a Z2.TIZEN CAFE on Twitter has put up what looks to be South Korean import ...

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