Samsung has announced its first commercial device that works on its own operating system Tizen. The low-end device is in India on the market for about 78 euros. Interestingly, the device, with a detour, even Android applications can run.
Samsung Z1
The Samsung Z1 has a 4 inch screen with a resolution of 800 by 480 pixels and runs on a 1.2GHz dual-core processor. The device has 768 MB of RAM onboard. The Z1 has a 3.1 megapixel camera at the rear and a VGA camera on the front. The device is equipped with 4 GB of internal memory which can be expanded with an SD card and dual-SIM capabilities.
Samsung is not going to replace Android by Tizen, but sees the operating system mainly as a system for Internet of Things applications. This could include, for instance to smart watches and other wearables, but also smart household appliances. In addition, Samsung provides its 2015 series of smart TVs Tizen.
Android Apps with Open Mobile
Tizen is a completely different operating system than Android, although both run on a core of Linux. However, there is a special coating made by Open Mobile that allows to run Android apps on Tizen. It is important for a (mobile) operating system that many apps are available and by allowing Android apps to run on the new operating system there are a lot of apps available at once.
According to the Open Mobile are over 1000 Android Apps available immediately for Tizen through the application layer. It is not known whether Samsung’s initiative of Open Mobile supports and is also not known whether those apps made available with the permission of the developers.
Video
The video demonstrated below how Android applications using the Tizen store can be downloaded after installing the Open Mobile Application Compatibility Layer.
Availability
For now, the Samsung Z1 is only available in India. Whether and when Samsung devices that run on Tizen will bring to the Netherlands and Belgium is still unknown
Source:. SamMobile and TechChrunch
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