Tizen smartphone Spotted

In the last little while, we encountered some leaks of Samsung's operating system Tizen which appeared on an alleged up-and-coming smartphone called the ZEQ 9000. The Tizen user interface from what we saw looked a lot like a Windows Phone/TouchWiz Magazine UX/stock Android knock-off, which has many people either excited or simply saying meh!

Tizen was shown in a leaked picture of the Samsung ZYQ 905 with the UI in clear sight (as seen on this page), and appeared to boast some sort of Flipboard/Windows Phone set up. Then the phone appeared on eBay very briefly under the name of ‘‘New Tizen Samsung SM-Z9005 smartphone for apps development’’ and for a price of 300 USD before disappearing out of sight.

Afterwards, there were comments from a Japanese mobile provider where they said that there simply isn’t enough room for a third operating system in Japan right now, when in fact, Samsung could probably make it happen single-handedly seeing as they have such a strong hold on smartphone distribution anyway. There were talks about Samsung presenting a version of the OS at the MWC this month which we will be attending in Barcelona.