All these new phones arrrggghhh!!!... Got a brother confused. The Samsung Z is the Korean company's first smartphone to be powered by Tizen software, There may be no Android, but Samsung's Z phone running its in-house Tizen operating system looks enough like the Galaxy S5's custom interface to easily get around. Tizen has been passed around the technology industry for years as various companies try to develop a rival to Google's Android software, which currently powers Samsung's hugely successful line of Galaxy smartphones and tablets.
That means Samsung is reliant on Google, and also means the money Galaxy owners spend on apps is funnelled to Google rather than into Samsung's pocket. By developing its own software, Samsung wants to break that reliance and see some app money for itself.
Samsung also sees Tizen as a bigger proposition than smartphones and tablets. Tizen already powers Samsung cameras, Samsung TVs, and wearable technology such as the Samsung Gear 2 smartwatch. Like Android, which is branching out to cars and wearables, Tizen could power all kinds of connected devices.
Eventually, anyway. Samsung seems to be having problems with the long, long-awaited Tizen smartphone. The Samsung Z was shown off for the first time in San Francisco earlier this year, and was expected to make its full debut this week at a conference for Tizen developers in Moscow. Sadly, for long-suffering developers attending the event, all Samsung came up with were more prototypes.
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Under the Samsung Z's 4.8-inch 720p S-AMOLED display, a 2.3GHz quad-core CPU with 2GB RAM, presumably a Snapdragon 800, runs the house. There is LTE Cat 4 (150/50Mbps) support on-board. Other specs include a pair of 8MP and 2.1MP rear and front cameras, a fingerprint sensor, 16GB of internal storage, and a 2600mAh battery. The smartphone is sized 5.44 x 2.74 x 0.33 inches (138.2 x 69.8 x 8.5mm) and weights 4.8 oz (136g). The operating system is Tizen OS 2.2.1, which packs familiar Samsung functionality, such as Download Booster and S Health 3.0.
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