Tuesday, 10 January 2012

Tizen OS exposed, apparently running on an unknown Samsung 'I9500'


An outfit called Realnorth, which claims to be frustrated by the lack of openness around the Tizen OS, has gotten its hands on the SDK and released some screenshots to prove it. If legit, they reveal a basic UI that seems to be inspired by a range of other OSs -- in addition to Tizen's progenitor, MeeGo -- while also managing to look a bituninspired. It's hard to know whether the absence of frills like widgets is due to this being an early build, or whether it's because Tizen is intended as a lower-end OS, but either way it's too early to make any harsh judgement. Curiously, the user-agent used to grab the screenshots is listed as a "Samsung GT-I9500," which at the very least reminds us that there's a Tizen-running Sammyphone somewhere on the horizon. In fact, this could even become Bada 3.0.

1 comments:

Lack of openness?!!?

You can download the SDK and OS from download.tizen.org. They make all the source code available for the OS and you can compile the OS for ARM or x86.

How is that not open enough?

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