Tizen has been receiving a reasonable amount of attention lately thanks to several leaks that have given us a very nice look at how its developing. While it is technically being developed as an open-source project under the Linux Foundation, it’s commonly seen as Samsung‘s baby to bring to the smartphone market, one which has had several false starts in recent memory. The latest false start was reportedly confirmed by an anonymous official from Samsung’s Media Solution Center who let loose that Samsung had planned to release Tizen handsets in Korea and Russia in the first half of this year, but that has unfortunately been put on hold.
This is the latest delay that also saw Japan’s NTT DoCoMo can the Tizen launch that was scheduled in March due to lack of demand. Seeing how saturated the smartphone market is getting, particularly the Android market, it’s doubtful that there will be a ‘right’ time to launch Tizen. All the same, Tizen is reportedly going to be shown at MWC 2014 next month so it will be good to see what kind of progress has been made since we saw it last.
Do you think Tizen is going to come out this year? What are your thoughts on how it’s going to perform in today’s smartphone industry? Let us know in the comments.
Source: Tizen Indonesia via Mashable
