Samsung Tizen

[Jorge-Vieira]

Samsung announces Tizen watch

Gear 2 gives Apple a run for its money
Samsung has officially announced its new smartwatch which it has based on its own Tizen operating system.

The Gear 2 smartwatch comes in two versions, the standard and the Classic, and seems set to give the over-priced out-of-date Apple Watch a run for its money.
The Gear 2 watches have the same 1.2-inch AMOLED display with a resolution of 360 x 360 pixels. They are powered by a dual-core 1.0 GHz processor, 4 GB of memory, and 512 MB of RAM.
For sensors they have an accelerometer, gyroscope, heart rate monitor, and a barometer, and also support 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.1, and NFC, but lacks one important, the built-in GPS.
The Gear S2 has a 3G version and a larger 300 mAh battery. As you would expect it is slightly thicker. The standard Gear S2 and Gear S2 Classic will have a 250 mAh battery. The difference between those two models is the size. The Classis is 39 mm, while the standard model is 42 mm.
Samsung has yet to announce any pricing yet, but with Tizen as its operating system it could be a lot cheaper for the South Korean outfit.

Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/38615-s...es-tizen-watch

[Jorge-Vieira]

Samsung lets Android rivals use its watch

Wants wider adoption
Samsung is going to make its next Tizin smartwatchwork with competitors who make Android smartphones.

The watch will be available as of October, it said at an event in Berlin tied to the IFA, Europe's largest consumer electronics trade show.
The idea is to make new smartwatches compatible with smartphones made by competitors and to help Samsung sales. It is an interesting idea and the total opposite of the walled garden model touted by Apple.
The watch market is yet to do anything interesting. It received a boost from Apple's marketing, but as people realised how pointless it was they stopped buying.
Younghee Lee, Samsung's global marketing head for mobile said his company was "leading the way in this segment. But we realise we can't do it alone."
Samsung launched its new watch earlier this week. The Gear S2 comes with Samsung's mobile payment technology.

Noticia:
http://www.fudzilla.com/news/wearabl...-use-its-watch

[Jorge-Vieira]

Samsung’s Nascent Tizen Surpasses BlackBerry In Global Smartphone OS Sales

The mountain that stands between BlackBerry and widespread relevance just got a little bit higher and steeper. How so? According to the latest report published by Strategy Analytics' Wireless Smartphone Strategies (WSS) services, Samsung's Tizen operating system just overtook BlackBerry as the third largest smartphone OS in the world.

Android registered a "slight year-on-year" bump in market share, while Apple gained ground on "strong demand for new iPhone models," the report states. Meanwhile, Microsoft, BlackBerry, and Firefox all "drifted down," giving Tizen an opportunity to jump in rank. And that's what it did, with "tangible growth" allowing it to overtake BlackBerry, now been relegated to fourth place for the first time ever.

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The results are promising for Samsung and its revised strategy for Tizen. Initially it seemed that Samsung hoped to grow Tizen into a dominant force in the smartphone sector so that it wouldn't be so reliant on Google and its Android platform. More recently, Samsung's been focusing on growing Tizen in emerging markets with releases like the Z3, along with putting it in products like smartwatches and televisions.

While all this is happening, BlackBerry, once a market leader in the smartphone sector, is struggling just to survive. The Canadian outfit has tried numerous different things to regain its former glory, everything from changing its name (remember when it was called Research In Motion, or RIM?) to, more recently, adopting Android.

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The latter is viewed as a key strategy towards the company turning a profit in hardware.

"We are focused on making faster progress to achieve profitability in our handset business. Today, I am confirming our plans to launch Priv, an Android device named after BlackBerry’s heritage and core mission of protecting our customers’ privacy," BlackBerry CEO John Chen said in August when announcing the company's second quarter performance. "Priv combines the best of BlackBerry security and productivity with the expansive mobile application ecosystem available on the Android platform."

At the time, BlackBerry reported revenue of just $491 million for the quarter, the lowest they've been in a decade.

Noticia:
http://hothardware.com/news/samsungs...3az0gVA387b.99