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Sabtu, 11 Januari 2014

Samsung: Don't hold your breath for a Tizen phone in the U.S.

Samsung Electronics is unlikely to bring its first phones running the Tizen operating system to the U.S. market, according to a U.S.-based Samsung executive.

Ryan Bidan, Samsung's director of product marketing for its U.S. mobile operations, said that Samsung has not announced anything specific related to Tizen for the U.S. market, but is continuing to work on devices. However, an in interview with FierceWireless here at the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show, he indicated that U.S. consumers shouldn't hold their breath for a Samsung Tizen phone.

"We don't feel the U.S. is a great test market for those kinds of products," he said, noting that Samsung will likely roll out Linux-based Tizen phones in other regions of the world. "The U.S. market is pretty mature. Bringing a new entrant here that doesn't meet a certain performance bar would be a challenge. Recognizing that, we don't want to set ourselves up for failure."

Tizen phones will likely start to be sold by the end of March, NTT DoCoMo spokesman Jun Otori told AFP on Wednesday. Samsung's first Tizen smartphone will likely be unveiled next month around the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona, Spain, Japan's Mainichi Shimbun reported Wednesday.

Samsung is the largest backer of the Tizen Association, an open-source group that was created through the merger of the former MeeGo and LiMo platforms. Other Tizen supporters include Sprint (NYSE:S), Intel, Huawei, Orange and Vodafone. Samsung has positioned Tizen as one of its many platform options, but analysts have consistently said Samsung could be using Tizen as a hedge against Google's (NASDAQ:GOOG) Android, which is Samsung's bread and butter for smartphones and tablets. (Samsung also supports Microsoft's (NASDAQ:MSFT) Windows Phone 8 platform.)  

In the wide-ranging interview, Bidan touted the company line that it must innovate on software as well as hardware to set itself apart. "It's absolutely the right direction for us. Our opportunity to differentiate and create really neat products for consumers lies in a holistic product solution--hardware and software," he said.

At the same time, Bidan acknowledged that Samsung has invested heavily in a multitude of software features for devices like its Galaxy S4 smartphone, but that with so many of them, consumers could easily lose track and not use them. Bidan estimated that when Samsung unveiled the S4 in March the company went through well over 80 different software features, ranging from "Air View," which allows a user to hover with their fingers over the screen to preview the content of an email, image gallery or video without having to open it, to an "S Translate" translating service that supports English, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Chinese, Japanese, Portuguese and Latin American Spanish, and supports speech to text and text to speech.

"It's something we struggle with all the time," he said, referring to how Samsung can continue to push software innovations without creating so much clutter that consumers lose interest. "It takes a certain amount of discipline to bring focus into that." This year, Bidan said, Samsung will focus more on "refining the things we are talking about and being more focused in the messages we are bringing to consumers" since there are likely only a handful of features consumers will find meaningful.

Samsung, the world's largest maker of smartphones and handsets by volume, made a splash last fall with the introduction of its Galaxy Gear smart watch. Smart watches, and wearables in general, have been a major theme of CES this year, and Samsung executives have said the Gear was just Samsung's first stab at wearables. Some consumers blanched at the $399 price tag for the device, which is essentially tethered to a Samsung smartphone. Samsung said in November it had shipped 800,000 Gear smart watches in two months since its debut despite middling reviews of the gadget.

Bidan said Samsung went with the watch form factor and the idea of getting notifications on the wrist because they were familiar and easy to understand concepts. However, he said that "for wearables to take off, we need to find those consumer use cases, we need to make them relevant, we need to make them interesting." Until Samsung and other companies get wearables into the mass market, they are not going to know what those experiences are, he said. Without giving anything away, Bidan said that Gear is  "a platform that can be extended."

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Samsung: Tizen isn’t coming to the US any time soon

Tizen has been in development for ages now, but an actual smartphone running on the OS is still missing from the market. Samsung has announced its plans to address that glaring fault in the near future, but if you’re in the U.S. and are looking forward to trying out Samsung’s new OS, then you might be in for a bit of disappointment. Ryan Bidan, Samsung’s director of product marketing in the US, has revealed in an interview that the company doesn’t intend to bring Tizen stateside any time soon, certainly not in 2014, as it considers the U.S. to be a mature market that won’t be too welcoming of a new player in the mobile operating system war.

“We don’t feel the U.S. is a great test market for those kinds of products. The U.S. market is pretty mature. Bringing a new entrant here that doesn’t meet a certain performance bar would be a challenge. Recognizing that, we don’t want to set ourselves up for failure.”

Bidan has a point: the smartphone market in the U.S. is divided almost evenly between the iPhone and Android phones, with even Windows Phone finding it hard to make the slightest dent in a space held by Apple and Google’s operating systems, and consumers aren’t exactly looking at switching to a new OS. Furthermore, emerging smartphone markets are where upcoming OS will find an easier time trying to make their presence felt, as these are the markets where those moving from feature phones to smartphones won’t have favoritism or inclination towards a particular OS.

Of course, with Android having overtaken almost 80 percent of the global smartphone market, even immature smartphone markets won’t exactly prove easy targets for Tizen. But then again, considering almost half of that 80 percent is full of Samsung devices, coupled with the company’s plans to make Tizen run nicely on extremely low-level hardware, the Korean manufacturer might just be able to position its OS as the third ecosystem pretty soon, if only because of a lot of marketing.

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US won’t be part of Tizen launch; “we don’t want to set ourselves up for failure”

They’ve taken their sweet time in getting here, but Tizen devices are on their way. While there are no assurances, it sure sounds like we’re getting ready to see some of the first commercial models at the Mobile World Congress next month. But even if they do actually launch, who’s going to get them? Well, we we saw one device pass through the FCC late last month, but that guy was pretty clearly destined for operation in Japan. While we still lack a comprehensive understanding of which markets are due to see Tizen phones, there’s one we can now count out, as a Samsung exec explains that the United States is not part of the company’s Tizen launch plans.

The logic is sound enough – Samsung describes the US smartphone market as already being “pretty mature” and not necessarily a great arena to show off a new, unfamiliar product: “Bringing a new entrant here that doesn’t meet a certain performance bar would be a challenge. Recognizing that, we don’t want to set ourselves up for failure.”

While there’s the potential there to read that as Samsung lacking confidence in its Tizen investment, we can also write it off as simply being pragmatic. Ultimately, we may see distribution more in line with the kind of thing going on with Firefox OS, or other platforms more interested in international markets. None of this is to say that the US will never see a Tizen phone, but that day could still be a long way off.

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Jumat, 10 Januari 2014

Smartphones based on Tizen OS developed by Asian firms set for release

Smartphones running on the Tizen operating system, developed by mobile phone operators in Japan, South Korea and China, are expected to be unveiled as early as February to rival those devices based on Apple's iOS and Google's Android operating systems which together account for over 90 percent of the world market.

The Asian firms, including NTT Docomo Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co., want to forge a "third force" to hold out against the iOS and Android operating systems and ensure that their smartphone business will be a long-term key revenue stream.

According to sources close to the companies concerned, there will be an announcement on the release of Samsung smartphones based on the Tizen OS in time for the "Mobile World Congress 2014," a mobile phone trade fair to be held in Barcelona, Spain, in February. There will also be an announcement on the opening of "stores" for apps that can run on the Tizen OS, the sources said. Samsung will put Tizen-based smartphones on the market as early as this spring, the sources said. Japan's NTT Docomo intends to further improve the operability and other functions of the new operating system and release their Tizen-based smartphones by the end of this year.

According to International Data Corp. (IDC), a U.S. market research firm, Android had an 81 percent share of the global smartphone market in the July-September quarter of 2013, followed by iOS at 12.9 percent. The details of the specifications for those popular operating systems are fixed by Google and Apple, respectively, so that makers of terminals and mobile phone carriers cannot freely improve them on their own.

The Tizen OS has no such constraints and makers and mobile phone operators can adjust the OS to their terminals. It is also easy to make apps that run on the OS. Furthermore, the participating firms share the cost of development to reduce the financial burden on each of them so they can cut the prices of their smartphones, sources say. The Tizen OS is expected to be installed in mainstream models catering to advanced countries as well as in low-priced models for emerging countries.

Tizen initially began to be developed mainly by Samsung and Intel Corp. of the U.S. NTT Docomo, Fujitsu Ltd. and other Japanese firms as well as China's Huawei Technologies Co. subsequently joined the project to develop the OS. NTT Docomo chairs the consortium of companies tasked with promoting business projects using the Tizen OS. NTT Docomo had initially planned to release Tizen-based smartphones by the end of 2013, but the plan has been put off due to a delay in development.

Report: Samsung to launch Tizen phones sometime in spring

Samsung recently announced that it would show off Tizen at MWC in February, and now a report suggests that the first Tizen phones will start coming out in spring, which means we could be able to buy a Tizen smartphone as early as March. According to unnamed sources, there will be an announcement on a release date for the first device before MWC; Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo has confirmed that Tizen smartphones will become available from the end of March, though this is likely a launch time frame only for DoCoMo’s own Japan-exclusive variants, which the carrier is supposedly working on separately from Samsung.
Samsung has missed a lot of rumored time frames for the first Tizen phone, reportedly to make it as good as possible out of the box. However, carriers like NTT DoCoMo have apparently expressed displeasure at the delays, which reportedly prompted Samsung toschedule the first Tizen showcase at MWC next month, along with the fact that competing OS like Firefox and Sailfish are already on the market.

Selasa, 24 Desember 2013

Tizen smartphone Samsung SC-03F has received FCC certification



Smartphone with model number SC-O3F previously been confirmed as the latest devices from Samsung Electronics that runs Tizen OS 2.2 for the Japanese telecom operator NTT DoCoMo through certification from the Department of Telecommunications and Communications of the Interior (Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications / MIC) in Japan, mendapar now also been certified by the FCC (Federal Communications Commission).

The FCC is an independent agency established by the government in charge of the United States to regulate in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum of network information, the media, public convenience and security of the country. Every IT and telecommunications devices in circulation in the United States or globally usually have passed the test of the FCC first.Tizen devices with similar specifications previously also seems to have got the certification in South Korea.



Samsung SC-03F for telecom operators NTT DoCoMo has been certified by the FCC today the 24th of December with the FCC ID "A3LSWDSC03F". According to the authentication material submitted to the FCC, the size of the body of the SC-03F is 136.1 mm long and 69.1 mm wide with a design that looks similar to the Galaxy S4 but more slender, so it is likely to use the touch screen dimension of 4.8 to 5-inch . SC-03F running on radio frequency band 850/1900MHz GSM, WCDMA 850, 2.4GHz/5GHz Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth 4.0 (Low Energy). CPUs listed on the authentication material mentions a clock frequency of 2.3 GHz. SoC (System on Chip) outstanding with a frequency of Qualcomm MSM8974 Snapdragon is 800, which was previously used by the Galaxy S4 and Galaxy Note 3 to the 4G/LTE version and the latest Galaxy J. Previous searches wapsite through UAProf (User Agent Profile) note that the SM-Z9005 smartphone Tizen using Krait CPU. If we connect with Snapdragon SoC 800, the CPU used is 400 Quadcore 2.3 GHz Krait latest Adreno GPU 330. Smartphone SM-Z9005 is a possibility for the operator Orange version for distribution in Europe, while the SC-03F for the Japanese market via NTT DoCoMo . We can also see that the battery used is a model SGH-N099, another name from the SC-03F.







Information previously stated that the Samsung SC-03F prototype has adopted the Tizen OS 2.2 and HD resolution screen (720 x 1280 px). Through testing, the prototype SC-03F has a score of 500 for the performance of HTML5 , which surpass the current tallest BlackBerry 10.2 with 491 and Chrome 31 on Android devices with 484. handset is expected to slide a day prior to theMobile World Congress (MWC) 2014 in February next in Barcelona, ​​Spain.

Tizen phone with model number SC-03F for NTT DoCoMo clears FCC

Of all the partners Samsung has for Tizen, Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo is reportedly in the biggest hurry to have a Tizen phone out in the market. Now, it seems the carrier’s wishes have taken one step closer to being fulfilled, as the SC-03F, which is DoCoMo’s Tizen handset, has managed to get clearance from the FCC for its network radios. Samsung is expected to show off the first Tizen device on February 23rd, and if all goes well, NTT DoCoMo might be the first to market with a Tizen phone.
The SC-03F seems to have a design that’s pretty similar to the Galaxy S4, and is 136.1 mm long and 69.1 mm thin, which is to say it’s a bit more slim. Specs are currently unknown, but it should carry hardware that’s at least similar to the Galaxy S3, if not newer.
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Sabtu, 21 Desember 2013

Leaked images show new Tizen user interface

Well, we’re not sure if this is the “new” or latest version of the interface, but a batch of images of the Tizen user interface found on the Korea Intellectual Property Rights Information Service database show a radically different design than what we’ve seen before. The images show off various apps, like the dialer, Contacts, Messenger, Calendar, and also the notification area, and everything looks quite good (if not exactly great), certainly better than the now stale TouchWiz design we have on Samsung’s Android phones, so hopefully this will make it into the final version of Tizen when phones running on the new OS are launched.
A few similarities to TouchWiz can be seen as well, mainly in the notification bar icons, and a few TouchWiz features, like Driving Mode and S-Beam are also visible – Samsung has been rumored to be making Tizen as feature-packed and complete as possible before launch, so don’t be surprised if you see many of the Samsung features you’ve seen on Android on Tizen as well. There are a few spelling mistakes in the text, but that is likely because Samsung hasn’t gotten around to translating everything from Korean to English completely.
Take a look at the UI’s pictures below, and let us know what you think!
Update: As it turns out TizenBlog Indonesia told us it is an old UI from Tizen 2.1.

First Tizen devices will be shown in February

We have reported earlier this year that Samsung will release its first Tizen based smartphone during Mobile World Congress which will be next year in February in Barcelona. Today we are pleased to inform you that after almost 2 years of development by Samsung and Intel they are now ready to show an: “an exclusive sneak preview of the newest Tizen devices as well as an opportunity to learn about the major milestones that the Tizen project has hit since last year’s event”. Today Samsung and Intel has send out invitations for this special event on February 23 in Barcelona, the day before Mobile World Congress will start.
According to various analists Samsung is under pressure to show commercial devices  running on Tizen, because of the release of smartphones running on new operating systems like FireFox OS and Jolla, smartphone(s) running on these OS’s are already available to buy. Besides that Samsung and Intel didn’t managed to release a smartphone running on Tizen in the second half of this year, which they initially planned.
SamMobile will be present on Mobile World Congress to cover the latest news about the new devices running on Tizen.
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Tizen OS camp to show newest' devices at Mobile World Congress

Samsung is under pressure to show commercial smartphones if it wants Tizen to become a success, according to an analyst

Devices running the Tizen operating system will be shown Feb. 23 in Barcelona, the day before Mobile World Congress opens there.

Backers of the open source Tizen, which includes Samsung Electronics and Intel, sent out invitations by email Wednesday for the February event. The invitation does not say what types of devices will be shown, promising "an exclusive sneak preview of the newest Tizen devices as well as an opportunity to learn about the major milestones that the Tizen project has hit since last year's event."

The first smartphones based on the Firefox OS and the Sailfish OS, which is developed by Finnish company Jolla, came out this year. The first Tizen smartphone was also supposed to be released, but has been delayed until next year, putting pressure on OS backers, especially Samsung, to show that Tizen remains a contender.

"It's pretty simple. At Mobile World Congress it has to show commercial devices," said Geoff Blaber, vice president research, Americas, at CCS Insight.

Blaber, along with other analysts and industry people, attended a Tizen event at this year's Mobile World Congress 10 months ago. Operators Orange and DoCoMo, backed by Samsung, said they would put the first smartphones on sale during the second half of the year. At the event, unspecified hardware from Samsung running version 2.0 of Tizen was demonstrated, but the OS was far from mature.

Getting the OS to a point where it was competitive proved to be more challenging than expected. In November, Orange said that it was reassessing its strategy together with the Tizen community regarding how to go to market and what that means in terms of features, price points and market positioning. Samsung said it was "committed to delivering the best mobile experience based on the open platform and a fully ready ecosystem around it."

The latter comment highlights a challenge that any new smartphone OS has to face. It is difficult get the attention of developers before devices are on sale, but it is also hard to sell smartphones without all the most popular apps in place, according to Blaber.

The Tizen project was born more than two years ago, when the Linux Foundation and Limo Foundation rebooted their efforts to compete with Apple and the Android camp by merging MeeGo and Limo.

Mobile World Congress will be Feb. 24-27 in Barcelona.

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Samsung will present its first Tizen-smartphone at MWC 2014?

As expected, Samsung have long been preparing to release a smartphone operating system Tizen - his output has been postponed several times. Tizen - it platformana based Linux, the project is the successor of MeeGo, LiMo and bada, to work on them participate Samsung, Intel and other companies. The first commercial devices based on Tizen steel digital camera from Samsung, however, now there is hope for a speedy announcement of the smartphone. became known that Samsung sent out email invitations to the event, which will take place the day before the International Congress of mobile Mobile World Congress 2014 Barcelona - February 23. However, there is an announcement of the smartphone does not directly, but mentions that the work will be shown operating system on a real device and it will be a significant milestone for the project Tizen. It is logical to assume that at the February MWC will be presented is the first smartphone running Samsung Tizen.

Senin, 16 Desember 2013

Samsung structuring ‘QHD-Iris-Tizen’ tech line for 2014

Samsung Electronics’ main technologies for next year 2014 smart phone business have been revealed: QHD resolution that is higher quality than full HD, iris verification system alternating the fingerprint verification technology, and new Tizen OS.

Currently Samsung is in hurry to secure the mass production technology for the flexible design they have come up with, which is still in the developing level. The damage they have received due to giving out big portion of market share to Apple is critical.

According to the electronics industry on the 16th (KST), Samsung will be applying QHD and iris verification tech onto their smart phone next year. They’re past the technology developing stage and are onto figuring out a way to mass produce.

Recent high quality resolution smart phones use full HD resolution (1920x1280). QHD resolution is 2560x1440, which is about 4 times clearer than the normal HD resolution.

Samsung will be introducing the first QHD smart phone at the Mobile World Congress (MWC) according to the internal news from the company. Samsung had announced they will mass produce QHD smart phone display.

However, it’s still questionable whether Samsung Electronics will take the ‘first QHD’ title or not. China’s VIVO is on their way to QHD smart phone production and so is LG Electronics.

The iris verification technology was acquired by Samsung Electronics and been known via Korea’s Patent Office. It is patent technology that allows the user to open the phone via reflecting user’s iris.