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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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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 Z3 sales could hit Europe later this quarter, as Tizen picks up speed
What’s the great comeback story of 2015? BlackBerry delivering arguably its most exciting phone in a long while with the Android-running Priv? Maybe, but when we turn our focus to BlackBerry’s own mobile platform, we spot another possible contender: back in November, Tizen edged past BlackBerry as the number-four globally ranked mobile OS. Samsung’s initial expansion into Tizen phones may have proved to be much rockier than Tizen’s spread across the ...
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Tizen overtakes BlackBerry for fourth place in Q3 2015 mobile OS ranks
BlackBerry made a controversial move when finally jumping on the Android bandwagon, and while the financially struggling Canadian company insists it remains committed to its own proprietary platform, throwing in the OS towel altogether seems the right call nowadays.It started looking that way a long time ago, to be honest, as BlackBerry OS not only fell considerably behind the two market leaders holding the industry in a dangerous duopoly situation, but also lost contact with the bronze medalist.Needless to highlight ...
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Facebook app becomes native to Tizen on Samsung Z3
Samsung’s sprawling ecosystem, Tizen, has had plenty of support from the company. How and why it continues to do so as its smartphone shipments are stagnating, we don’t know. But the small platform has had a hero phone to coalesce around, the Samsung Z3. As it pushes into more markets, ...
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Samsung Z3 Tizen phone goes official in India with emphasis on price and design
Let’s not act surprised. We’ve been waiting for a few months now for Samsung’s sophomore Tizen effort, and though it follows in the footsteps of the Z1, we never expected it to be called Z2. Instead, it’s dubbed Z3 in a Windows 10-like ploy meant to draw attention to its generation-skipping major upgrades.But emerging markets remain the primary focus of the Tizen project, at least as far ...
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Samsung Z3 Tizen phone pictured again, as production apparently begins in India
Samsung has long been tipped to skip a number in the branding of its next-generation Tizen handheld to highlight the prospective Z3’s radical evolution over the original Z1. After a short rumor mill hiatus, the Z3 name started to pop up in online reports again a couple of weeks back, and various evidence seems to suggest a wider global ...
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Samsung could finally bring Tizen phones to Europe with launch of the Z3
Is it finally about time you started taking Tizen seriously? While at first, Samsung’s efforts with the platform may have been interpreted as a petulant response to resenting Google’s control over Android, Tizen’s slowly been coming into its own, and that’s all the more true now with the strong response the new Tizen-powered Gear S2 smartwatch is getting. But while Tizen’s got a foothold in Samsung’s wearable efforts, Tizen-powered phones have been a whole lot harder to come by, and
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Forget the Z2; possible Samsung Z3 Tizen phone appears to be in the works
What is going on with Samsung’s Tizen plans? At least, while Tizen seems to pretty clearly have a future with the company’s wearables, popping up most recently on the new Gear S2 and Gear S2 classic, progress has been much slower when it comes to Tizen and smartphones. While we ultimately got the Z1 early this year, we haven’t heard much about plans for a follow-up; there were
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BlackBerry CEO talks plans for future, engaging customers, and budget phones
Being the CEO of a smartphone company may sound like a dream job to many of us, but there’s a big difference between running a firm seeing record sales or even a startup chock full of potential, and heading-up a company with sales that are in decline. Last fall, BlackBerry shuffled its leadership amidst talk of a possible buyout, bringing on John Chen to take reins. As BlackBerry introduced its new Z3 to Indonesia last week (above: ...
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Pocketnow Weekly 096: phone lasers, remixes, and the false promise of “Prime”
What exactly qualifies as a “remix?” How deluded do you have to be to believe in all these “Prime” rumors? Why are we so transfixed by the notion of lasers on smartphones, and so easily taken in by a smartphone commercial, if it’s shot like a trailer for Inception? We tackle these questions, and the biggest announcement section in the history of the podcast, in episode 096 of the Pocketnow Weekly. No, that’s not bragging – it’s just an unavoidable symptom of a month packed with unboxings, hands-ons, product launches, and reviews (both ...
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BlackBerry shares Z3 hardware details as pre-orders open
During Mobile World Congress this year, BlackBerry made a pair of announcements, but both were quite a bit lacking when it came to details. The company announced its Q20 and Z3, but didn’t have so much as a picture of the Q20 to share with us, and precious little to divulge about the Z3′s hardware. We were told the Z3 was supposed to go up for sale in Indonesia in March, but that didn’t quite happen. Instead, today we learn of the start of pre-orders for the Z3, while ...
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