Back in November of 2012, we ran an article called, “Tizen: Just What If Samsung Changed The Mobile World – Again?“, and it appears the time is now coming when that possibility is may very well take place.
Mobile operating systems such as that of Blackberry’s and Apple iOS have been severely overshadowed by Google’s Android.
Ironically, Samsung is also the world-wide leader in sales of Android devices and as such, Google and Samsung have a relationship that is mutually necessary for the advancement of Android (see Daily Flux article regarding the Samsung / Google relationship here).
Android belongs to Google, in many ways, so it should be evident that along the way Samsung would develop it’s own agenda. One that may not necessarily add up to a friendship with Google & Android.
Welcome Samsung’s upcoming OS — Tizen.
Tizen is more than able to compete with Android. It’s not a Linux fork, or spin off, of Android in any sense, and is in fact being built from the ground up by Samsung, Intel, Panasonic, NEC and others. Carsten Haitzler (maker of Enlightenment) even worked with Samsung, at least in Tizens early stages.
The Tizen Association finally got the mobile OS to the point where a major American wireless service provider, Sprint Nextel, said in May of last year (2012) that they would join the Tizen Association and prepare to put Tizen-powered devices in their future mobile device product lines. Most recently, Japan’s largest mobile communications provider (NTT Docomo) made known its intentions to join forces with Samsung and further development of Tizen as well.
Docomo’s motive for the union can be understood, or at least somewhat concluded because Docomo is the only one of Japan’s top three major mobile phone service operators that does not sell iPhones. Docomo has also suffered recently as more contracts were cancelled than initiated for the first time in about five years. Possibly due to the fact that Docomo does not sell the iPhone (hence the added interest in Tizen for the mobile mogul.)
Visit Tizen’s website or on Google + for more information on the upcoming mobile OS.