Samsung's First Tizen Smartphone Has Some Serious Game

You may have heard about Tizen as a platform for Samsung's smartwatches, but the company has bigger plans for the OS, if the new Samsung Z smartphone is any indication. Unveiled Monday in advance of the Tizen Developer Conference in San Francisco, the Samsung Z is the world's first commercial smartphone to run on Tizen.

Let's back up: What the heck is Tizen? It's yet another mobile operating system, this one based on Linux, and its principally operated by Samsung (Intel and a few others support it, too). Tizen was created with multiple kinds of devices in mind — not just phones — and it's capable of powering cameras, wearables, smart TVs and even laptops. It's currently the OS in most of Samsung's Gear watches and some of its cameras. Read more...