Wednesday, January 2, 2019

What is Tizen OS in Samsung Z2, the difference is with Android

What is Tizen OS in Samsung Z2, the difference is with Android
KOMPAS.com - Samsung finally released Z2 smartphone to the Indonesian market. Unlike other smartphones that carry the Android operating system (OS), Samsung carries another OS, called Tizen.

Tizen is an open source operating system that uses the core of the Linux kernel. Not only for smart phones & tablets, Tizen or designed for multimedia devices in vehicles, televisions & so on.

He became a major project of the Linux Foundation organization and Samsung electronics company & producer of Intel processors.

As of April 30, 2012, the Tizen version 1.0 operating system was launched with the code name Larkspur. Then on September 25, 2012, Tizen version 2.0 with Alpha status was released with the code name Magnolia. The full version of Tizen 2.0 was released in January 2013.

Tizen's first smartphone designed by Samsung is the Z1 series released to January 2015 later. His successor, Samsung Z2 debuted to India in August 2016.

KOMPAS.com/LAKSONO HARI WIWOHO The Samsung Gear S smart watch launched to Berlin features a suite of software that operates in the Tizen system (left). The right photo is a rear view of Gear S, there is a SIM card slot. Besides the Samsung Z2 smartphone, other Samsung devices that have used Tizen OS first are Gear S smart watches, Gear Fit smart bracelets, Samsung Gear VR headsets, & lines Samsung Smart TV.

Read: Samsung Boyong TV OS Tizen to Indonesia

The difference with Android?

The Tizen operating system was developed by Samsung so that the South Korean company could free itself from mastery & dependence on Google Android.

Samsung's trust in Tizen is that it judges that the Linux OS is the lightest among other operating systems. Tizen allows less memory & processor power consumption.

PhoneArena Samsung Tizen "The origin of Tizen is very simple: Tizen is more 'lightweight' than other operating systems. In other words, Tizen needs less processing & memory," said a Samsung representative.In addition to breaking away from Google's dependence, Tizen and Samsung will become the foundation for forming the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem.

According to Samsung, Tizen will hold a major role in the future to realize IoT.

This was stated by Samsung Electronics Indonesia Head of Product IT & Mobile, Denny Galant after the launch of Samsung "Tizen" Z2, Wednesday (10/19/2016).

"Tizen's future opportunity is for Samsung smart device connectivity. The direction to IoT, is similar to connecting smartphones with wearable, VR headsets, and other Samsung home appliances," he said.

Read: Can Tizen Defeat Android?

About Tizen software that is not as much as Android

It must be acknowledged that the amount of software available to the Tizen platform is still small if compared to software to Android.

Chat & general media applications such as WhatsApp, Line, Instagram & Facebook, can indeed be tested on Tizen-based smartphones. However, ride-sharing software such as Uber, Grab, & Go-Jek are not yet available to the Tizen Store software store.

"This Samsung Z2 is still an introduction so that the public can understand Tizen," Denny said.

"We see the development first to the people. Along with its development, other software and will arise," he added.

Fatimah Kartini Bohang / KOMPAS.com Samsung Z2 with the Tizen.Denny operating system offers Samsung will be more aggressive spawning Tizen-based products to the upcoming 2017. This is what is now a homework for Samsung.In addition, to support the Tizen ecosystem, Samsung aggressively collaborates with local developers to produce Tizen-based software.

One of them is by holding the Indonesia Next App 3.0 competition in July. In this competition, software developers are challenged to produce software on three platform categories, namely Tizen Smartphone, Wearable / Gears Apps & Gear VR Content.

It could be that in the future the Tizen software will have a poly user base, thus attracting software developers to join him.

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