Tizen 2.3 Revealed, Hints at 800 x 480 Resolution Low-End Smartphone
Samsung has been using Google's Android mobile OS for as long as their smartphones have been existing but for the past two years, the South Korean tech company has been working on their own smartphone operating system called "Tizen."
Screenshots of the latest update of Tizen, 2.3, have already been revealed and looks more colorful than previous versions with updated icons. In 2.3, Samsung has optimized the user experience for devices with screen resolutions starting at 800 x 480.
No smartphone has sported the Tizen OS yet but Samsung is currently developing one. The device will supposedly be a low-end one and is speculated to be unveiled at the end of the year. With Tizen 2.3 optimized for such resolutions, the low-end device might sport the resolution.
Currently, the company is focusing on low-end and mid-range smartphones as Samsung's chief architect of the Tizen OS Taesoon Jun mentioned last week. Apparently, the company's efforts to produce Tizen is in case their relationship with Google doesn't go well in the future. Additionally, Tizen is to compete against Chinese and Indian phone manufacturers.
The upcoming Tizen-powered handset on the other hand is coded as the Samsung SM-Z130H. Currently known information places the handset with a 5.0-inch display, a Spreadtrum SC7727S SoC chip with a dual-core 1.2GHz processor, an ARM Mali-400 GPU and 512MB of RAM.
