Samsung News: Tech Giant Working On High-End Tizen OS Smartphone For 2016
The South Korean technology company is gearing up to release a new high-end smartphone in the market, this time powered by its home-grown mobile operating system, Tizen. This is according to a report in Gadgets 360. The rumored high-end smartphone, said to be launched in 2016, was mentioned in a Samsung Vietnam website and reported through Sammobile, according to the report. That same website also mentioned that Samsung may be planning to start a new series or expand its Z phone series.
Samsung has long been expanding its line of products powered by its own Tizen OS. The Tizen OS is said to have surpassed the BlackBerry mobile OS in terms of number of devices running on it during the third quarter of 2015, according to the Gadgets 360 report. It became the fourth largest OS for smartphone, surpassing BlackBerry, which dropped down to the fifth largest OS platform.
Samsung has already launched several Tizen-based smartphones starting with the Samsung Z1 and then the Samsung Z3. Both phones were launched in India and according to Samsung, the phones were selling well in the country. Tizen phones are also said to have the second-largest market share in India in terms of budget smartphones, next to those running Android OS.
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Both the Z1 and the Z3 are considered to be budget devices, thus the technical specifications are not as high. However, a Tech Times report noted that despite this fact, Tizen OS phones seemed to have become more popular than BlackBerry OS phones.
If the report is true, Samsung may be trying its hand in creating its own niche within the high-end market. Its Android-based high-end devices are already doing well, so it is logical for the company to expand its Tizen line of phones to the high-end market as well.
Samsung, however, has yet to confirm the report.
