Tuesday, June 3, 2014

Samsung breaks ‘cord’ with Android – FORTUNE

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – The South Korean company Samsung independent from Google started with the presentation on Tuesday a new smartphone that uses own operating system, Tizen.

With the new product, Samsung expects to earn a portion of the enormous potential of electronic devices that operate in an interconnected manner market.

The Samsung Z marks before and after about most of the world’s leading manufacturer of devices for smartphones , which worked so far with Google’s operating system, Android.

The presentation took place during a Application developer conference dedicated to Tizen in San Francisco, a few blocks of an event similar organized this week by rival Apple .

Samsung Tizen promoted as a platform not only for phones but for a range of connected devices capable of communicating with each other in the future, from appliances to door locks, to watches.

In addition to new smartphone, the company provided cameras Tizen-Android and a prototype TV that connects to online content using Tizen.

During the presentation of its inaugural conference, Apple revealed in front of 6,000 attendees a new version of its own, iOS, OS, and also opened the door to applications for health and home connected with specific programs.

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A thousand developers witnessed Samsung’s offer, a project that revolves around Tizen to “monitor and control objects at home and on the body. “

executive vice president of Samsung, Choi Jong-Deok said that” the goal of this project is to develop services for the whole of the Internet of Things.

Samsung Intel collaborated with the U.S. to develop Tizen platform, which is based on the Linux system, a ‘free’ system, which means that manufacturers can adapt and tailor your interface.

Tizen platform is already used by the smart watch Gear 2, released by Samsung in February.

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