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by Stephen Schenck | July 28, 2014 1:23 PMRead OnAre we ever going to see Samsung's first commercial Tizen-running smartphone, the Samsung Z, go up for sale? After its early June launch, Samsung said the Z would make its retail debut in Russia sometime in Q3. But then a few weeks back we heard reports from a Moscow developer's event that Samsung was pulling its Russian launch announcement, and would instead introduce the phone “later,” when a better selection of Tizen apps was available. That didn't bode particularly well for the Z, and now Samsung's back with a new statement, talking again about delays. Sadly, it's more of the same, ...
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by Stephen Schenck | July 17, 2014 6:20 PMRead OnA month and a half ago, Samsung announced its first commercial Tizen smartphone, the Samsung Z. The hardware seemed pretty capable, with a 4.8-inch 720p display and even the heart rate monitor from the Galaxy S5, but it didn't take long before we started developing some concerns about the phone's arrival, especially as Samsung withdrew the phone's announcement from a planned event at a Russian Tizen dev conference, citing a need to beef-up its app portfolio. The manufacturer said the phone would be appearing “later,” and we were still in the promised Q3 availability window, but after ...
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by Stephen Schenck | July 11, 2014 12:07 PMRead OnWe've been anticipating the arrival of Tizen-running commercial smartphones for more than two years by this point. Finally it looked like things were starting to happen earlier this year, but then carriers seemed to get cold feet. Eventually Samsung put the rumors to rest and announced the Samsung Z last month; end of the story, right? If only it were that simple. Even with this model now confirmed, Tizen can't seem to shake this history of delays, and now issues are interfering with plans for the Z's Russian launch. Moscow was expected to see its own Samsung Z launch event this week at a ...
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by Taylor Martin | June 11, 2014 7:02 PMRead OnAfter several delays, Samsung has finally followed through on its promises. Last July, we were eagerly awaiting the launch of the first Tizen smartphone, but word emerged that Samsung would be facing some delays. The rumor claimed Samsung would have to push back the launch about two months. Come November, we heard again that Tizen hardware would be delayed, that we wouldn't see any consumer-focused devices until 2014. Fast forward to January and we still hadn't see the first Tizen devices. Samsung's plan was to launch the first Tizen handsets in the first half of the year. Clearly, that ...
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by Stephen Schenck | June 2, 2014 10:08 AMRead On
We knew this day was coming. Samsung's been working on Tizen for years now, taking its time to help flesh-out the platform into something that would be able to take a swing at the Android-dominated phone landscape out there now. We've already seen Samsung bring Tizen to its cameras, as well as its smartwatches – and just last week it reached a milestone as it updated the first-gen Galaxy Gear to replace its native Android OS with Tizen. But for all this progress, we've been lacking one key development: a full-on smartphone, a commercially-focused Tizen handset. It's taken us a long time ...
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by Stephen Schenck | October 2, 2013 10:49 AMRead OnLast week, we saw Samsung confirm its plans to introduce a handset employing its long-in-development curved display technology – the same glassless OLED construction that will someday lead to flexible phones. This is big news on its own, but Samsung hasn't been the only company pursuing such components – more than once, we've heard of LG's own efforts. Now it looks like they're in a race to see who can be first to market with one of these curved phones, as word arrives of the LG Z, featuring its own arced display. This could very well be the start of a new family from LG, with future ...
